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Ford granted summary judgment in DPS6 transmission 'lemon' law case
District Judge Andre Birotte, Jr. handed Ford Motor Co. another favorable ruling in a test case of the DPS6 powershift transmission MDL at the Central District of California.
KLG fee agreement with client in lemon law litigation very generous - to the firm
LOS ANGELES - A Knight Law Group (KLG) contingency fee agreement in litigation against Chrysler reveals highly favorable terms for the firm, with three ways for it to tap into a client's settlement.
Ford MDL judge: No reasonable person would interpret 'automatic' in the way the plaintiff claims he did
Ford and other auto makers have been fighting a growing number of lemon lawsuits in California courts for more than five years.Last month, Birotte reversed a $23,155 jury verdict in a trial he presided over last December.
Judge awards lemon law attorney $684K in fees for plaintiff's $1 bench trial judgment
SAN DIEGO - A San Diego Superior Court judge has awarded lemon law attorney Michael E Lindsey $684,250 on a mere $1 judgment he secured for a client before her at bench trial.
Judge finds evidence insufficient in lemon law case; Reverses jury verdict against Ford
LOS ANGELES - Ford Motor Co. notched a major "lemon law" victory Thursday when a judge reversed a $23,155 jury verdict in a trial he presided over last December.
Judge denies Ford's move to arbitrate lemon law case; Decision coming on new trial after Ford points to alleged plaintiff counsel misconduct
LOS ANGELES - U.S. District Judge Andre Birotte, Jr. was unpersuaded by Ford Motor Co.'s move to compel arbitration in one of hundreds of cases remaining in multi district litigation involving allegedly defective DPS6 transmissions in Fiesta and Focus vehicles.
Ford settles more than 700 MDL transmission cases
LOS ANGELES - Consumer Legal Remedies (CLR) and Ford Motor Co. have reached a confidential settlement of approximately 760 cases in DPS6 powershift transmission multidistrict litigation.
Judge awards Ford costs in lemon law suit; Case stands out for plaintiff's huge fee request
LOS ANGELES - U.S. District Judge Andre Birotte, Jr. has granted Ford Motor Co. all its costs - $18,923.43 - in one of thousands of powershift transmission products liability cases being litigated in the Central District of California.
Ford seeks judgment in its favor in lemon law case tried in December - or new trial
LOS ANGELES - Ford Motor Co. is asking a federal judge who presided over a lemon law jury trial in December to either grant a new trial or judgment in its favor claiming plaintiffs' counsel engaged in "pervasive misconduct" that resulted in a $23,155 verdict for plaintiffs Yvonne and Salvador Quintero.
Knight Law Group says $540K in fees is reasonable in lemon law case that netted $65K verdict
LOS ANGELES - Attorneys seeking $540,000 in fees in a $65,000 lemon law case are defending the reasonableness of their request.
Ford to challenge 'exorbitant' $540K fee request in $65K judgment; Says it is prevailing party
LOS ANGELES - Ford Motor Co. is challenging a request for more than a half million dollars in attorneys' fees in a lemon law case tried two months ago in federal court, arguing in part that a plaintiff awarded around $65,000 could end up owing the IRS more money than he will recover in damages given the exorbitant fees sought.
Plaintiff firm that lost 15 lemon lawsuits over repeated obstruction of discovery, appeals
Attorneys for more than a dozen plaintiffs whose lemon law cases against Ford Motor Co. were dismissed last month by a federal judge overseeing consolidated litigation are appealing.
Judge hits J&J with $344 million penalty over pelvic mesh products; Appeal expected
SAN DIEGO - Months after a protracted bench trial at San Diego Superior Court ended, Judge Eddie Sturgeon on Jan. 30 hit Johnson & Johnson with a $343,993,750 judgment over its pelvic mesh products designed to treat female incontinence.