A district court insufficiently analyzed the commonality requirement in relation to three issue classes it certified of pickup truck owners who say Ford Motor Co.'s F-150 trucks between 2013 and 2018 had a brake defect, the Sixth Circuit said on Thursday.
Though the district court “thoughtfully considered” most of the issues in motions for summary judgment and class certification, its “cursory treatment of commonality, one of the four necessary class action ingredients, failed to meet” Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23’s “stringent requirements,” the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit said in a per curiam opinion.
The district ...
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