IVY v. FORD MOTOR CO.

No. 10-10786.

646 F.3d 769 (2011)

Melanie P. IVY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. FORD MOTOR COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

July 11, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hugh N. Smith , Christopher Roberts , Smith & Fuller, PA, Belleair Bluff, FL, James E. Carter , James E. Carter & Associates, LLC, Savannah, GA, William C. Lanham , Clark H. McGehee , Johnson & Ward, Atlanta, GA, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Michael R. Boorman , Audrey K. Berland , Huff Powell & Bailey, LLC, Sunell C. Gupta , Matthew S. Knoop , Charles K. Reed , McKenna, Long & Aldridge, LLP, Atlanta, GA, John M. Thomas , Bryan Cave, LLP, Saint Louis, MO, Charles Jeffrey Ash , Porterfield, Harper, Mills & Motlow, PA, D. Alan Thomas , Huie, Fernambucq & Stewart, Birmingham, AL, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before CARNES, ANDERSON and FARRIS, Circuit Judges.


ANDERSON, Circuit Judge:

I. Background

The background facts were set out concisely in the district court's opinion:

Plaintiff Melanie Ivy is a woman in her mid-twenties who was injured in a single-car accident when driving a vehicle manufactured by Defendant Ford Motor Company. On May 22, 2006, when Ivy was twenty-four years old, she was traveling on Holcomb Bridge Road in Gwinnett County, Georgia in her mother's 1996 Ford Explorer...

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