The Georgia Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that because Ford Motor Co. intentionally misled plaintiffs in a product liability trial the company won in 2009, the plaintiffs will get another chance to try the case.
“If this case is to teach any lesson, it is that the civil discovery process is supposed to work to allow the parties to obtain the information they need to prove and defend their cases at trial before impartial juries,” Justice David Nahmias wrote in a 58-page opinion. “Discovery is not supposed to be a game in which the parties maneuver to hide the truth and relevant facts, and when a party does intentionally mislead its adversary, it bears the risk that the truth will later be revealed and that the judgment it obtained will be re-opened to allow a new trial based on the truth.”
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