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MCI SALES AND SERVICE, INC. v. HINTON

No. 09-0048.

329 S.W.3d 475 (2010)

MCI SALES AND SERVICE, INC., f/k/a Hausman Bus Sales, Inc. and Motor Coach Industries Mexico, S.A. de C.V., f/k/a Dina Autobuses, S.A. de C.V., Petitioners, v. James HINTON, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Dolores Hinton, Deceased, et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Decided December 17, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wanda McKee Fowler , Thomas C. Wright , Wright Brown & Close LLP, Chad Michael Forbes , The Forbes Firm, PLLC, Michael A. Choyke , Wright Brown & Close LLP, Houston, TX, John C. Dacus , Dallas, TX, Darrell L. Barger , Corpus Christi, TX, Hartline Dacus Barger Dreyer & Kern, L.L.P., James R. Dunnam , Dunnam & Dunnam, L.L.P., Waco, TX, for Motor Coach Industries Mexico, S.A. de C.V.

John C. Dacus , Dallas, TX, Darrell L. Barger , Corpus Christi, TX, Hartline Dacus Barger Dreyer & Kern, L.L.P., Wanda McKee Fowler , Thomas C. Wright , Michael A. Choyke , Wright Brown & Close LLP, Houston, TX, for MCI Sales and Service, Inc.

Stephen E. Harrison II , Harrison Davis Steakley , P.C., Waco, TX, William Guy Arnot III , Justin Joseph Presnal , Winstead PC, Thomas K. Brown , Wayne Fisher , Fisher, Boyd, Brown, Boudreaux, & Huguenard, L.L.P., Houston, TX, Timothy M. Sulak , Morris Craven & Sulak, L.L.P., Craig T. Enoch , Winstead PC, Austin, TX, for James Hinton.

Justice GUZMAN delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Justice HECHT, Justice WAINWRIGHT, Justice MEDINA, Justice JOHNSON, Justice WILLETT, and Justice LEHRMANN joined, and in which Chief Justice JEFFERSON joined as to Parts I and II.

This appeal arises from a jury's verdict in a suit brought against the manufacturer, importer, and distributor of a motorcoach. In 1995, when the motorcoach at issue here was manufactured, federal safety regulations governing the...

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