Jaguar Defeats Appeal in Land Rover Lawsuit Over Battery Drain

Jaguar Land Rover North America LLC was properly granted judgment in a proposed class suit over an alleged battery flaw in certain Land Rover vehicles, a federal appeals court affirmed Thursday.

Named plaintiff Victorya Manakin failed to show that the vehicle warranty terms were unconscionable, and the battery problems she allegedly experienced were different from an issue that the automaker knew about, the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed in a nonprecedential opinion.

In early 2009, Jaguar learned that drivers of LR2 Land Rovers were complaining of flat batteries. The automaker announced a software update in 2011 ...