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

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1 don't know what that means. I don't know the
2 circumstances around what that means.
3 Q Okay.
4 MR. LAWDERMILK: I will object as
5 nonresponsive.
6 Q (By Mr. Lawdermilk) Well, in forming your
7 opinions for this report, has anyone ever told you or
8 did you know that Mr. Murthy said that American
9 Dairy Queen shut down the playground of Strickland Drive
10 after Tyler's death?
11 A I'm not recalling it if I did.
12 Q I want you to look on No. 25 - Page 25, one,
13 two - fifth paragraph.
14 In the franchise relationship it is
15 standard industry practice that if a franchisor wants to
16 require a new standard [like playground safety] that is
17 the current form franchise agreement but is not in the
18 older franchise agreements to be implemented and/or
19 followed by the franchisees with older agreements they
20 can either get them to comply voluntarily or wait until
21 their old agreements come up for renewal and then they
22 will have to comply because they will be renewing by
23 signing the current form franchise agreement.
24 Is that your opinion?
25 A With the assumption that when the renewal