Objectors To 9th Circuit: Ford Transmission Settlement Doesn’t Benefit Class

(February 15, 2018, 11:24 AM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A settlement by Ford Motor Co. that ended a class complaint accusing the automaker of fraudulently concealing and denying the existence of a transmission defect benefits only Ford, class counsel and the representative plaintiffs, objectors argue in an appellant brief filed Feb. 2 in the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, challenging a district court’s approval of the settlement (Omar Vargas, et al. v. Ford Motor Company, Nos. 17-56745 and 17-56746, 9th Cir.)....