June 09, 2015
Nissan Motor Corp. and the lead class counsel for nearly 20,000 Nissan Leaf drivers asked a California judge to set aside objections from a small number of class members and move ahead with a $10 million warranty settlement that has been in the works since 2013.
May 27, 2015
A class action settlement struck between Nissan Leaf owners and the automaker over defective batteries is unfair to those who leased, rather than purchased, the affected electric cars and "smacks of collusion," according to an objection filed in California federal court on Tuesday.
May 12, 2015
Nissan Leaf owners on Monday asked a California federal judge to approve a deal that offers replacement batteries for owners of the electric cars, after addressing the objection of a Leaf-owning Ninth Circuit judge who'd shed his robes to blast an earlier proposal.
April 16, 2014
A Ninth Circuit judge angry over the allegedly weak battery in his Nissan Leaf electric vehicle has ditched his robes to fight a class action settlement with a hotly disputed $38 million price tag, spurring a federal judge on Tuesday to create an unusual mediation structure for addressing his objections.
July 09, 2013
In a proposed settlement valued at more than $10 million, Nissan North America Inc. on Monday agreed to expand the warranty for its 2011-2012 LEAF cars to settle a putative class action alleging that the vehicle's electric-powered battery lost capacity over time at an unreasonable rate.