Law360, New York (June 21, 2010, 2:18 PM ET) -- The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to take up a petition challenging an appeals court’s intervention in a multidistrict proceeding that allowed Ford Motor Co. and Bridgestone Firestone North American Tire LLC to dismiss a series of products liability lawsuits brought by Mexican residents.
On Monday, the nation’s highest court let stand the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit’s grant of mandamus to Ford and Bridgestone, which determined that Mexican courts were in fact the proper venue for the cases and dismissed the suits...
High Court Won't Hear Venue Dispute In Ford Tire Case
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