IN RE FORD MOTOR CO.

No. 12-1000.

427 S.W.3d 396 (2014)

In re FORD MOTOR COMPANY and Ken Stoepel Ford, Inc., Relators.

Supreme Court of Texas.

March 28, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rodney V. Ruiz , Attorney General's Office Tort Litigation Division, Austin, TX, for Intervenor.

David McQuade Leibowitz , Jacob Leibowitz , Richard W. Hunnicutt III , Law Offices of David McQuade Leibowitz PC, San Antonio, TX, for Real Party in Interest.

Alison R. Ashmore , Christopher D. Kratovil , David J. Schenck , Dykema Gossett, PLLC, Dallas, TX, Johnny Wayne Chambless II , Michael W. Eady , Ronald D. Wamsted , Sara M. Berkeley , Wade Caven Crosnoe , William Leonard Mennucci , Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons, L.L.P., Austin, TX, for Relator.


PER CURIAM.

In this design-defect case, the plaintiff sought to expose potential bias of the defendant's two testifying experts by inquiring at their depositions into the frequency with which they testified in favor of design-defect defendants. To further explore bias, the plaintiff now seeks to depose a corporate representative of each expert's employer. We hold that on the facts of this case, the Rules of Civil Procedure do not permit such discovery and we conditionally...

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