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Parties Involved:
3M Company
Cross Claimant
American Optical Corporation
Cross Defendant
John Doe Corporations
Defendant
Does
Defendant
Willie Lee Iverson
Plaintiff
Mine Safety Appliances Company
Cross Claimant

Document Text:

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS 

PINE BLUFF DIVISION 

WILLIE LEE IVERSON PLAINTIFF 

v. No. 5:15-cv-114-DPM 

MINE SAFETY APPLIANCES COMPANY; 

3M COMPANY; AMERICAN OPTICAL 

CORPORATION; DOES, John and Jane 1-500; 

and JOHN DOE CORPORATIONS, 1-500 

ORDER 

DEFENDANTS 

1. When this case was removed here recently, American Optical' s longpending motion to dismiss came with it. The motion is granted in part and 

denied in part. Iverson has abandoned his claims for breach of warranty and 

civil conspiracy. They're dismissed without prejudice. The gross-negligence 

claim as a basis for punitive damages fails because Arkansas doesn't 

recognize it. National By-Products, Inc. v. Searcy House Moving Co., Inc, 292 Ark. 

491, 494, 731S.W.2d194, 196 (1987). The aiding-and-abetting claim seems to 

duplicate the abandoned conspiracy claim, and perhaps will drop out too. 

American Optical' s motion is otherwise denied. 

2. It would help everyone if Iverson would file an amended 

complaint-trimming the parties to only those still in, trimming the claims to 

only those that remain, and pleading with specificity about what each 

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remaining defendant allegedly did and did not do. 

3. The Court would appreciate a joint status report from all remaining 

parties. What is the status of discovery? How much more time is needed on 

that front? And please include anything else you think the Court needs to 

know about the case. 

* * * 

Motion, NQ 5, granted in part and denied in part. Joint status report due 

by 10 July 2015. Amended complaint due by 17 July 2015. 

So Ordered. 

D .P. Marshall Jr. 

United States District Judge 

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