Center for Auto Safety, Inc. v. Drew Lewis, Secretary, Department of Transportation

ROBB, Senior Circuit Judge:

In this case in the District Court The Center for Auto Safety and others, all of whom we shall refer to collectively as the “Center”, challenged the settlement by the Secretary of Transportation of a safety defect investigation concerning some 23 million Ford vehicles. The investigation was conducted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration pursuant to the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966. 15 U.S.C. § 1381 et seq. 1 It was prompted by reports that the automatic transmissions in the Ford cars caused many accidents by failing to hold…