October 26, 2015
A West Virginia federal judge on Monday denied Ford Motor Co.'s bid to overturn a magistrate judge's order for additional discovery in a proposed sudden-acceleration class action, finding that the decision was calculated and reasonable given the complexity of the case.
October 14, 2015
Ford Motor Co. renewed its bid Tuesday to set aside additional discovery in a proposed sudden-acceleration class action, telling a West Virginia federal court that enough discovery has been conducted to prove whether there is a defect, and that the "fishing expedition" must stop.
October 09, 2015
Ford has "exaggerated" its concerns about the burden of complying with a discovery order that would require an executive to testify about its document collection practices in sudden-acceleration litigation, members of a putative class told a West Virginia federal judge Friday.
October 05, 2015
A magistrate judge's order allowing additional discovery in a proposed sudden-acceleration class action should be set aside, Ford told a West Virginia federal judge Friday, arguing that it's been working hard to keep up with the flood of discovery demands but that "enough is enough."
September 15, 2015
A West Virginia on Tuesday consolidated three class actions into a single case alleging Ford Motor Co. vehicles produced between 2002 and 2010 are prone to sudden, unintended acceleration, but refused to allow new plaintiffs to enter the suit, saying it would essentially undo much of the hard-fought prior litigation.
September 03, 2015
Ford Motor Co. can claw back some privileged documents that it inadvertently shared in three sudden acceleration class actions, a West Virginia federal judge ruled Thursday, but said the automaker must share a large portion of the documents that aren't actually protected by attorney-client privilege.
August 28, 2015
A West Virginia federal judge declined to sanction Ford Motor Co. Friday for its vague privilege log in three sudden acceleration class actions, but ordered the automaker to update the log or risk waiving its privilege rights.
June 30, 2015
Ford Motor Co. told a West Virginia federal court on Monday that plaintiffs' sanctions attempt in three sudden acceleration class actions is "absurd," with the automaker saying that it has produced all it can of an engineer's files and the rest are privileged because they were drafted for litigation.
June 10, 2015
Ford Motor Co. has consistently failed to engage in good-faith discovery with plaintiffs in three putative class actions accusing it of selling vehicles vulnerable to sudden unintended acceleration and, as a result, the automaker should be sanctioned, the plaintiffs told a West Virginia federal court Tuesday.
May 21, 2015
Ford Motor Co. told a West Virginia federal judge Thursday that plaintiffs in three class actions over unintended acceleration risks are trying to paint the automaker as a "bad actor" by falsely claiming Ford hasn't complied with discovery requests, even though the automaker has produced more than 1 million documents.