Judith R. BUGOSH, Administratrix of the Estate of Edward J. Bugosh, Deceased and Judith R. Bugosh, In Her Own Right
v.
I.U. NORTH AMERICA, INC., as Successor by Merger to the Garp Company, formerly known as the Gage Company, formerly known as Pittsburgh Gage and Supply Company, E.W. Bowman, Inc., Emhart Glass Inc., formerly known as Emhart Manufacturing Company, formerly known as Hartford Empire, F.B. Wright Company, Surface Combustion, Inc., Taylored Industries, Inc.
Appeal of I.U. North America, Inc.
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Argued December 2, 2008.
Decided June 16, 2009.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Jennifer E. Watson, Esq., Robert B. Lawler, Willbraham, Lawler & Buba, P.C., Philadelphia, Susan Regrut Mitchell, Esq., Willbraham, Lawler & Buba, P.C., Pittsburgh, for I.U. North America, Inc.
Matthew R. Wimer, Esq., Wimer Law Offices, P.C., Oakmont, for Taylored Industries, Inc.
Janice Marie Savinis, Esq., Savinis, D'Amico & Kane, L.L.C., Pittsburgh, Clifford Alan Rieders, Esq., Pamela L. Shipman, Esq., Rieders, Travis, Humphrey, Harris, Waters & Waffenschmidt, Williamsport, for Judith R. Bugosh.
James J. Mulhall, Esq., Frank Stanek, Esq., for Surface Combustion, Inc.
Andrew Frank Adomitis, Esq., Leo Gerard Daly, Esq., Grogan Graffam, P.C., Pittsburgh, for F.B. Wright Company.
Thomas Joseph Jezewski, Esq., L. John Argento, Esq., Swartz Campbell, L.L.C., Pittsburgh, for Emhart Glass Inc.
Nancy L. Winkelman, Esq., Samuel William Silver, Esq., Stephen Andrew Fogdall, Esq., Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis, L.L.P., Philadelphia, for amicus curiae Washington Legal Foundation (WLF).
Michael Lee Martinez, Esq., Crowell & Moring, L.L.P., for amicus curiae Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry et al.
John Edward Iole, Esq., Charles H. Moellenberg, Jr., Esq., Laura E. Ellsworth, Esq., Margaret Caitlin Gleason, Esq., Jones Day, Pittsburgh, for amicus curiae Sherwin-Williams Company.
James Michael Beck, Esq., Dechert L.L.P., Philadelphia, for amicus curiae Product Liability Advisory Counsel.
Edward Michael Koch, Esq., Jerrold Paul Anders, Esq., James Wright Scott, Jr., Esq., White and Williams, L.L.P., Philadelphia, for amicus curiae Pennsylvania Defense Institute and the Insurance Federation of Pennsylvania.
James Joseph Pettit, Esq., Gene Locks, Esq., Jonathan W. Miller, Esq., Mitchell S. Cohen, Esq., Locks Law Firm, Philadelphia, for amicus curiae United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers, and Allied Workers, etc., et al.
Jeffrey VanVoorhis Mansell, Esq., Goldberg, Persky & White, P.C., Pittsburgh, for amicus curiae United Steelworkers.
Rosalind T. Kaplan, Esq., Jarve Kaplan Granato, L.L.C., for amicus curiae American Association for Justice, et al.
BEFORE: CASTILLE, C.J., and SAYLOR, EAKIN, BAER, TODD, McCAFFERY and GREENSPAN, JJ.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
ORDER
PER CURIAM.
Appeal dismissed as having been improvidently granted.
Justice SAYLOR files a dissenting statement in which Chief Justice CASTILLE joins.
Justice SAYLOR, dissenting.
Appeal was allowed to consider whether, in product liability actions in Pennsylvania, to move from Section 402A of the Second Restatement of Torts to Section 2 of the Third Restatement of Torts: Product Liability, thus substantially altering the...
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