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Robert P. WALLIS, Appellant, v. The GRUMMAN CORPORATION, Appellee.
    No. 86-238.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
    Feb. 24, 1987.
    Melvin A. Rubin, Jerry B. Schreiber, Joseph C. Segor, Miami, for appellant.
    Blackwell, Walker, Fascell & Hoehl and James E. Tribble and Angela L. DerOvane-sian, Miami, for appellee.
    Before BARKDULL, HUBBART and DANIEL S. PEARSON, JJ.
   PER CURIAM.

The summary final judgment in favor of the defendant, The Grumman Corporation, is affirmed on the authority of Shaw v. General Motors Corp., 503 So.2d 362 (Fla. 3d DCA 1987). As in Shaw, we certify to the Supreme Court of Florida the following questions as being of great public importance:

I. Should the legislative amendment of Section 95.031(2), Florida Statutes (1983), abolishing the statute of repose in product liability actions, be construed to operate retrospectively as to a cause of action which accrued before the effective date of the amendment?
II. If not, should the decision of Pul-lum v. Cincinnati, Inc., 476 So.2d 657 (Fla.1985), appeal dismissed, — U.S. -, 106 S.Ct. 1626, 90 L.Ed.2d 174 (1986), which overruled Battilla v. Al-lis Chalmers Mfg. Co., 392 So.2d 874 (Fla.1980), apply so as to bar a cause of action that accrued after the Battil-la decision but before the Pullum decision?

Affirmed.