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Stewart V. GLASCOCK; Faye Glascock, Plaintiffs-Appellants v. MEDICAL DEPOT, INCORPORATED, doing business as Drive Medical Design & Manufacturing, Defendant-Appellee.
    No. 13-30554
    Summary Calendar.
    United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
    Sept. 10, 2013.
    Donald Gene Cave, Esq., Cave Law Firm, Baton Rouge, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellant.
    Paul Darren Palermo, Esq., Craig Vincent Sweeney, Blue Williams, L.L.P., Me-tairie, LA, for Defendant-Appellee.
    
      Before WIENER, OWEN, and HAYNES, Circuit Judges.
   PER CURIAM:

Plaintiffs-Appellants Stewart V. Glas-cock and Faye Glascock, husband and wife (the “Glaseocks”) sued Defendant-Appel-lee Medical Depot, Incorporated (“Medical Depot”) for damages incurred by Mr. Glas-cock when he fell from a “cane seat” — a walking cane that folds out to become a seat — manufactured by Medical Depot. The Glaseocks advanced claims under the Louisiana Products Liability Act grounded in improper design, construction, and failure to warn; and, alternatively, under res ipsa loquitur. Medical Depot filed a motion for summary judgment seeking dismissal of the Glaseocks’ claims. Following the parties’ submission of summary judgment evidence, including testimony of competing experts, the district court entered judgment in favor of Medical Depot, dismissing the Glaseocks’ action, and they appealed.

We have carefully reviewed the record on appeal, including the briefs of the parties and the district court’s patiently detailed Ruling on Motion for Summary Judgment, all of which convinces us that the district court’s judgment was providently granted. Even though the Glas-cocks’ evidence presented issues of disputed fact, it does not rise to the level required to make such disputes “genuine,” as required to avoid summary judgment. The Glaseocks might have been able to meet the standard of genuine issues of disputed fact had they adduced a deeper and broader quality of evidence, particularly their expert testimony, but they failed to do so in both their products liability claim and their assertion of res ipsa loquitur — as surgically analyzed and rejected by the district court in its aforesaid Ruling. For essentially the same reasons and reasoning set forth therein, that court’s judgment is

AFFIRMED. 
      
       Pursuant to 5th Ciu. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5th Cir. R. 47.5.4.