Sharp, Midea Lose Appeal Bid to Exit Class Microwave Lawsuit

Midea Microwave and Electrical Appliances Manufacturing Co., a Sharp Corp. subsidiary, and their American affiliates aren’t entitled to the “extraordinary remedy” of directing a federal court in Pennsylvania to undo a transfer of a proposed class action over allegedly unsafe microwave handles to a court in California, the Third Circuit ruled.

The companies may raise a jurisdiction issue—their main concern stemming from the transfer order—in the district court in California, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit said Wednesday.

Elaine Rice, Erika Mendoza, Dean Mauro and others filed a would-be class suit in the U.S. District Court ...