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212984P.pdf   07/12/2022  Jonathan Edwards  v.  Skylift, Inc.
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  21-2984
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Central   
[PUBLISHED] [Arnold, Author, with Loken and Kelly, Circuit Judges] Civil case - Torts. In action alleging a derrick digger manufactured and sold by defendant was defective, unreasonably dangerous and negligently designed because an override switch allowed the digger to be operated without the deployment of stabilizing outriggers, the district court did not err in granting defendant summary judgment because plaintiff had not produced sufficient evidence to support a finding that the derrick digger was unreasonably dangerous as Arkansas defines that phrase; as a result, the court need not decide whether the machine's design was defective; with respect to the claim of negligent design, no jury could have found that the machine was negligently designed, and the district court did not err in granting defendant summary judgment on this claim.