A 5-5 vote by the Georgia Court of Appeals means that the state Supreme Court will have to decide whether Ford Motor Co.'s allegedly misleading answers to questions from plaintiffs' lawyers should force retrials in at least two product liability victories by the carmaker.
The appeals court announced it was stuck on July 12, in an order transferring the case to the high court. The order was accompanied by three opinions from the judges, one by Judge Michael Boggs as a "majority" decision favoring Ford, and the others by then-Chief Judge John Ellington and Judge Anne E. Barnes "dissenting," despite the tie vote. The words "NOT TO BE OFFICIALLY REPORTED" were stamped on the first page of Boggs' opinion.
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