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- Title: Pride V. Bic Corporation
- Author : Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 07, 2000
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 72 KB
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Plaintiff-Appellant Bethie Pride sued the defendants, BIC Corporation and Societe BIC, S.A. (BIC), the marketers of the BIC J-6 fixed flame model cigarette lighter,*fn1 for the death of her late husband, Carl L. Pride. Mr. Pride sustained fatal third-degree burns after one of the J-6 model lighters allegedly first failed to extinguish, causing his clothing to ignite, and then exploded, peppering him with isobutane fluid that fueled the conflagration that killed him. Although the case was originally scheduled for jury trial on April 14, 1998, the district court continued the trial date pending an evidentiary hearing on BIC's motion to exclude the testimony of Pride's expert witnesses. Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(b), the court referred all pretrial motions to a United States magistrate judge who conducted an evidentiary hearing on the admissibility of Pride's expert witness testimony and, on May 12, 1998, entered an order disposing of all of the parties' non-dispositive pretrial motions. The magistrate judge also submitted a report recommending that the district court exclude the testimony of Pride's expert witnesses and also grant BIC's motion for summary judgment. Pride now appeals the district court's order adopting the magistrate judge's report and recommendation and denying five motions filed by Pride after the magistrate judge submitted his report. For the reasons that follow, we affirm the district court's order granting summary judgment for BIC and the court's other challenged rulings.