Legal Opinion
In Re Lawnmower Engine Horsepower Marketing & Sales Practices Litigation
District Court, E.D. Wisconsin
Decided August 16, 2010No. MDL. 08-1999PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DECISION AND ORDER
LYNN ADELMAN, District Judge.
The present litigation consists of multiple class actions that the Panel on Multidistrict Litigation transferred to this district and consolidated for pretrial purposes. The predominant issue in all actions is whether manufacturers of lawnmowers and/or lawnmower engines conspired to materially overstate and/or fraudulently advertise the horsepower produced by their lawnmower products. The parties have reached a global settlement. In prior orders, I certified settlement classes and preliminarily approved the settlement agreements. On June 22,…
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