Petition DENIED. (orders list)

DISTRIBUTED for Conference of January 9, 2009.

Reply of petitioner General Motors Corporation filed. (Distributed)

Brief of respondent Boyd Bryant, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated in opposition filed.

Brief amici curiae of National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies, et al. filed.

Order extending time to file response to petition to and including November 20, 2008.

Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 20, 2008)

General Motors Corporation, Petitioner, represented by Thomas A. Casey Jr.

Boyd Bryant, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, Respondent, represented by Timothy J. Cullen

National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies, et al., Amicus Curiae, represented by Sheila L. Birnbaum