Legal Opinion
John F. "Jack" Walsh v. Ford Motor Company
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided December 19, 1986No. 85-5879PublishedCited by 241 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GINSBURG, Circuit Judge. HARRY T. EDWARDS, Circuit Judge and RUTH B. GINSBURG, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiffs-Appellees, who proposed to represent several million owners of Ford automobiles, initiated the instant suit against Ford Motor Company to pursue breach of warranty claims by means of class actions. The appellees’ suit arises under the Magnuson-Moss Warranty-Federal Trade Commission Improvement Act (“Magnuson-Moss” or the “Act”); 1 the essence of appellees’ complaint is that certain Ford models suffer from a transmission defect that causes the automobiles to slip out of the “park” position…
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