no. b-000119-c melinda matthews, individually ) in the district court ...

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1 A I don't know. I can't address whether it was
2 or wasn't. I wasn't asked to give an opinion on that.
3 Q Well, in the documents you have seen, has the
4 American Dairy Queen ever given - allowed the
5 Strickland Drive Dairy Queen to be transferred in the
6 Nineties?
7 A I don't know.
8 Q Okay. On Page 20, the fifth dot down, you
9 state the ADQ's force had to do the insurance not
10 renewing a store's insurance due to noncompliance with
11 CPSC standards.
12 Will you tell me what that means? There
13 may have been some typos there. What is your opinion
14 there?
15 A That there was a linkage that the insurance
16 company had that said before they'd insure the place,
17 that it had to be up to standards; and that was part of
18 the influence and force that ADQ had.
19 Q So, one thing that ADQ in your opinion used to
20 influence local stores was the threat or - of not
21 being - of the local stores not being able to get
22 insurance until the CPSC was up to standard?
23 A Not threat, reality.
24 Q Reality. Did you know that ADQ refused to
25 give the expert reports to the insurance company? Did