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   State Courts - Mississippi - May 25, 2006

  
Forbes v. GMC, NO. 2003-CT-01201-SCT, SUPREME COURT OF MISSISSIPPI, May 25, 2006, Decided
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Overview: Circuit court erred in granting directed verdict to manufacturer in products liability case; driver offered evidence sufficient to allow jury to find that manufacturer was liable under Miss. Code Ann. § 11-1-63(a)(i)(4) for failure of air bag to deploy in collision where owner's manual stated that air bag would deploy if collision was hard enough.

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Irby v. Travis, NO. 2004-CA-00414-SCT, SUPREME COURT OF MISSISSIPPI, May 25, 2006, Decided
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Overview: Trial court committed reversible error by admitting into evidence a prior accident at a railroad crossing because it was not substantially similar to the accident at issue, as the accidents involved trains traveling in different directions and took place at different times of day and during different months of the year.

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K.D.F. v. J.L.H., NO. 2004-CA-01320-SCT, SUPREME COURT OF MISSISSIPPI, May 25, 2006, Decided
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Overview: Chancellor's denial of a petition to adopt a child and to terminate the natural father's parental rights on the ground of unfitness was affirmed because the chancellor's findings of fact in denying the adoption under Miss. Code Ann. §§ 93-17-7 and 93-17-8 and the termination of the father's rights were supported by credible proof.

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Parks v. State, NO. 2004-KA-02448-SCT, SUPREME COURT OF MISSISSIPPI, May 25, 2006, Decided
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Overview: Assault conviction was affirmed where defendant's use of hands and fists to strike the victim constituted a means likely to produce serious bodily harm, which was sufficient under Miss. Code Ann. § 97-3-7(2)(b). It was not abuse of discretion for the State to ask leading questions of its adverse witness as permitted under Miss. R. Evid. 611(c).

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Webb v. Braswell, NO. 2004-CA-01438-SCT consolidated with NO. 2004-IA-01566-SCT, SUPREME COURT OF MISSISSIPPI, May 25, 2006, Decided
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Overview: Summary judgment against borrowers who sought to recover lost profits from unplanted crops arising from an alleged breach of an implied contract was proper where Miss. R. CIv. P. 15(a) motion to amend pleadings, requested four years after action was filed, was properly denied and where expert testimony was properly excluded as too speculative.

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