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ABRAHAM v. VOLKSWAGEN OF AMERICA, INC.

No. 367, Docket 85-7552.

795 F.2d 238 (1986)

Irwin ABRAHAM; John Anderson; Thomas Baker; Arthur Balmes; Banwell, White & Arnold, Inc.; Christopher & Elizabeth Beirne; Joseph Blackburn; Bryan Brames; James A. Bunn; Richard & Sigrid Burns; Richard Butler; Ann B. Caulfield; Edwin F. & Joanne Cedilotte; Frederick Coholan; Harry Cole; Kathryn Colegrove; Henry & Norma Cruz; Charlene G. & Elkins Dahle; Susan Delaney; Loretta Anne Dennis; Doreen Fitzgerald Dewald; Patricia Guyer; William Doyle; Thomas Dunn; Kathleen Eisenhauer; Lothar & Carole Eiserloh; Cynthia Estruch; Margaret Fenley; Remy Fenster; Paul Fischer; Henry Friedeman; Don Furnas; Harry Gewanter; Karen A. Glasow; Mitchell Goldstein; Robert Goodman; Michael B. Gross; Franklin & Barbara Haas; Peter Harissis; Albert J. Havranek; Ellen Hawyer; Tony Henson; Terrence D. Herne; Fred Hundhausen; Dirk E. Huttenbach; William & Nancy Jones; Mary Julian; Sandra Kessler; Richard V. Kirchhoff; Joan Koven; Randall G. Krause; Juergen Kroos; Robert Kropkowski; James Dubrick; Anne Marie Kuder; Joan Lawlor; Steven Levine; Paul Levinstein; G. Seth Leyman; Alvin S. Levy; William J. Little; C. Douglas McArthur; Raj Mangla; Lou Ann Marinello; J. Douglas Martin; Elaine Mason; Patrick Mathews; Curt Matthews; Katherine & Donald McConnell; Joseph W. Mechaber; Edward Michaels; Marcia Milton; Sterling Moffat; Peter Monaldi; Robert J. Nemes; David Nesser; Pamela Hall O'Connor; Stuart H. Orkin; Orval Rader; C. Michael & Karen Reimringer; Ann Roberts; Michael Roberts; Jose Rodriguez; Henry Rohrer, Jr.; Barbara & Philip Rubin; Mari E. Ryan; Susan Schliff; Dennis Schmidt; Judith Schmucker; Brian & Cheri Schuster; Thomas R. Shevlin; Alexander Simpson; Rita Simpson; Mary Soles; Andrew Stewart; Edward Taylor; Archie Lowell Thing; Ernestine S. Thomann; William Trautman; A.T. Valencia; Annunziata Vetter; Jill Voran; John & Maria Wilkins; Suzanne Willis; Lois Winslow; Ralph Zimelman; Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. VOLKSWAGEN OF AMERICA, INC., Defendant-Appellee. VOLKSWAGEN OF AMERICA, INC., Third-Party Plaintiff, v. John F. SCHOENDHARDT d/b/a Kincannon Mobil Gas Service, et al., Third-Party Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided June 26, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Beverly C. Moore, Jr., Washington, D.C. (Carl Shoolman, Rochester, N.Y., of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellants.

Daniel V. Gsovski, New York City (Walter F. Petzinger, Herzfeld & Rubin, P.C., New York City, Anthony R. Palermo, Harter, Secrest & Emery, Rochester, N.Y., of counsel), for defendant-appellee.

Before MESKILL, CARDAMONE and WINTER, Circuit Judges.

WINTER, Circuit Judge:

This litigation originated as a class action suit brought under the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 2301-2312 (1982) ("Magnuson-Moss," "the Act"), involving alleged defects in the oil systems of Volkswagen Rabbits. The district court dismissed the class action for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. It concluded that only 75 of the 119 named plaintiffs had viable claims for relief...

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