Legal Opinion
Almy v. U.S. Suzuki Motor Corp.
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided December 12, 1991PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McKUSICK, Chief Justice.
This products liability action is before us on an interlocutory appeal from a pretrial order of the Superior Court (Kennebec County, Delahanty, C.J.) denying defendants’ motion for the trial to be bifurcated on the issues of liability and damages. We hold that such an in limine order governing the conduct of the upcoming trial does not fall within any exception to the final judgment rule.
In Augusta in June 1984, plaintiff Philip Almy suffered a paralyzing injury when the operator of the motorcycle upon which Almy was riding lost control of the motorcycle. In July 1988…
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