United States Ninth Circuit

In a class action alleging that Land Rover's LR3 vehicles suffer from an alignment geometry defect that caused tires to wear prematurely, the denial of plaintiff's motion for class certification is reversed where: 1) the district court erred when it required plaintiffs to show that a majority of proposed class members’ vehicles manifested the results of the defect; 2) defendant identified no defenses unique to plaintiffs that would make class certification inappropriate; and 3) classwide adjudication of plaintiffs' claims was superior to other means of adjudicating this case.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/17/2010
• Published 08/17/2010

Judges

• Dorothy W. Nelson

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James C. Shah, Christopher T. Handman