Legal Opinion
Patricia A. Daffin, on Behalf of Herself and All Others Similarly Situated v. Ford Motor Company
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided August 18, 2006No. 05-3545PublishedCited by 144 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ROGERS, Circuit Judge.
In this interlocutory appeal of class certification under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23, we affirm the district court’s certification of a class of all 1999 or 2000 Mercury Villager owners and lessees who owned or leased their vans during their van’s initial warranty period. The class seeks damages for a defective throttle body assembly that causes the accelerator to stick. Although the class includes those owners who never actually experienced a manifestation of the alleged defect, the class certification was not an abuse of discretion because the class and…
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