REL: 6/28/2002 Ex parte Wal-Mart (in re Vaughan)
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SUPREME COURT OF ALABAMA
OCTOBER TERM, 2001-2002
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Ex parte Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
PETITION FOR WRIT OF MANDAMUS
(In re: Joan Vaughan
v.
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., et al.)
(Clarke Circuit Court, CV-2000-48)
JOHNSTONE, Justice.
WRIT DENIED.
Moore, C.J., and See, Lyons, Brown, Harwood, Woodall, and
Stuart, JJ., concur.
Houston, J., concurs specially.
HOUSTON, Justice (concurring specially).
I concur to deny the writ, with the understanding that Wal-Mart must produce only evidence of customer falls caused by shipping pallets in the aisles of Wal-Mart stores in Alabama for five years before December 15, 1998. Ex parte Wal-Mart, Inc., 809 So. 2d 818 (Ala. 2001).