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In re Volkswagen Clean Diesel Litigation

Texas Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation

Decided January 14, 2016No. MDL No. 15-0884Published

1Opinion of the Court

MEMORANDUM OPINION

Justice Harvey Brown

delivered the unanimous opinion of the MDL panel.

Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. and Audi of America, LLC (collectively Volkswagen) ask us to create an MDL pretrial court for over 60 lawsuits pending against them in ten different counties. The lawsuits arise out of a “Notice of Violation” (also referred to as an NOV) issued by the Environmental Protection Agency, in which the EPA alleges that Volkswagen manufactured and installed “defeat devices in certain 2009 through 2015 model year diesel light-duty vehicles equipped with 2.0-liter engines which…

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