Ford Motor Warranty Cases
Annotate this CaseThe Court of Appeal granted a writ petition to vacate the trial court's order denying Ford's petition for coordination of add-on cases pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 404.1, concluding that a trial judge's order declining to add cases to a coordination proceeding, like the coordination motion judge's original order, was subject to the Court of Appeal's independent review. In these cases where plaintiffs alleged that Ford breached warranties with respect to cars equipped with the DPS6 transmission, the trial court erred in refusing to add 467 substantively indistinguishable cases in the same counties to the original 470 cases filed. The trial court identified no distinguishing feature in the add-on cases that would support its analysis of the section 404.1 coordination standards, and such analysis was erroneous.
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