White v. General Motors Corp.

In this appeal, General Motors Corporation (GMC) challenges a trial court order dated March 15, 2000, requiring GMC to make the first of three payments toward a *723fund established for a research project to enhance fuel system safety for motor vehicles. GMC previously agreed to fund the research project as part of the settlement of a class action lawsuit against it by owners of certain GMC trucks.2 After the trial court signed a judgment, on January 20, .1999, approving the settlement, it thereafter issued an order, on June 21, 1999, purportedly addressing the implementation of the settlement.…