Link v. Mercedes-Benz of North America, Inc.

I. DISMISSAL OF THE APPEAL

This is an appeal, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1292(b),1 of an order of the district court determining that the suit in question could be maintained as a Fed.R.Civ.P. 23(b)(3) class action. Plaintiffs seek to represent a class of all persons, firms, or corporations who owned or leased a Mercedes-Benz automobile during the period from March 1970 to March 1974, and had non-warranty repairs performed by authorized Mercedes dealers during that period. The defendants are Daimler-Benz A.G., the West German automobile manufacturer, and its wholly-owned United States…