United States Tenth Circuit

In a products liability suit, defendant-machinery manufacturer is not qualified for protection under Oklahoma's ten-year statute of repose, which limits liability for entities involved in the design of improvements to real property, where its production-line machinery is not an "improvement to real property."

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/20/2005
• Published 04/20/2005

Judges

• TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judge., Before LUCERO, McKAY, and TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Micky Walsh, Beeler, Walsh & Walsh, Oklahoma City, OK, and Joe E. White, Jr. and Charles C. Weddle III, White Law Firm, P.C., Oklahoma City, OK, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Derrick Teague and Rodney L. Cook, Jennings Cook & Hoisington, Oklahoma City, OK, for Defendant-Appellee.