Ford Wins Appeal to Add Lemon Cases to Single Court

May 9, 2017, 7:23 PM UTC

About 200 warranty cases over transmission problems in Ford Motor Co. cars will be added to consolidated litigation in California after an appeals court overruled a trial judge who declined to take the new cases (Ford Motor Co. v. Aguilar, 2017 BL 152810, Cal. Ct. App., 2d Dist., B277725, 5/8/17).

The decision hinged in part on whether product-liability and “Lemon Law” cases are equally suitable for coordination.

Hundreds of Ford Fiesta and Focus owners, suing separately, alleged Ford breached warranties on models with a particular transmission, according to the California Court of Appeal, Second District. Ford asked in ...

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