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LOWE'S HOME CENTERS, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Defendant-Appellant.

PER CURIAM:

In a decision published in 381 F.3d 1091 (11th Cir. 2004), this panel affirmed the district court's denial of General Electric's motion for new trial premised upon its challenge to the mitigation instruction, and certified two state law questions to the Supreme Court of Georgia. The first certified question, as articulated by the Supreme Court of Georgia, was "whether Georgia's economic loss rule allows a plaintiff to recover in tort lost profits that would have only been realized by using its damaged property and other damaged property that it did not own." General Electric Company v. Lowe's Home Centers, Inc., 608 S.E.2d 636 (Ga. 2005). The Supreme Court of Georgia answered that first certified question in the negative, thus mooting the second certified question. Id. Accordingly, the judgment of the district court awarding $18 million in lost profits to Lowe's is vacated, and this case is remanded to the district court for further proceedings consistent with the judgments of this court and the Supreme Court of Georgia.

SO ORDERED.

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LOWE'S HOME CENTERS, INC. v. GEN. ELEC. CO
(Apr 4, 2005)