TYNDALL v. FORD MOTOR COMPANY

No. 415PA12.

749 S.E.2d 279 (2013)

Amos TYNDALL, as Guardian ad Litem for Che-Val Batts v. FORD MOTOR COMPANY and Alejandro Ortiz Rios.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

November 8, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martin & Jones, PLLC, Raleigh, by Hoyt G. Tessener ; Langdon & Emison, by J. Kent Emison , pro hac vice, and Jessica M. Agnelly , pro hac vice; and Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC, Raleigh, by Burley B. Mitchell, Jr. and Pressly M. Millen , for plaintiff-appellee.

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, Winston-Salem, by Adam H. Charnes and Richard D. Dietz ; Smith, Anderson, Blount, Dorsett, Mitchell & Jernigan L.L.P., Raleigh, by Kirk G. Warner and Christopher R. Kiger ; and Bowman and Brooke LLP, by Robert L. Wise , pro hac vice, for defendant-appellant Ford Motor Company.

Pinto Coates Kyre & Brown, PLLC, Greensboro, by Kenneth Kyre, Jr. , for North Carolina Association of Defense Attorneys and North Carolina Chamber, amici curiae.

Carlton Fields, P.A., by Wendy F. Lumish , pro hac vice, and Alina Alonso Rodriguez , pro hac vice; and Smith Moore Leatherwood LLP, by Jon Berkelhammer , for Product Liability Advisory Council, amicus curiae.


PER CURIAM.

Justice BEASLEY took no part in the consideration or decision of this case. The remaining members of the Court are equally divided, with three members voting to affirm and three members voting to reverse the orders of the Court of Appeals. Accordingly, the orders of the Court of Appeals are left undisturbed.

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