Smith v. Heather Manor Care Center, Inc.

ROBERT J. GLADWIN, Judge.

| iThis appeal is brought from the grant of appellees’ motions for directed verdicts and the denial of appellants’ .challenge based on Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986), to the striking of three African-American members of the jury venire by appellees. We affirm.

Bettye Hickman died while a resident of a nursing home in June 2009. Two of Hickman’s daughters, appellants Cynthia Smith and Delois. Muldrew, are the co-administrators of. Hickman’s estate. In January 2010, they brought suit against the nursing home, two related entities…