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CARLSON v. GENERAL MOTORS CORP.

No. 88-2168.

883 F.2d 287 (1989)

Mary A. CARLSON; Romana Stazen; Kenneth Owens; Richard B. Allen; C.V. Alston; Charles Armour, Jr.; Pierce Beauzay; Lewis O. Beck; Claude A. Black; Charles A. Blau; Raymond E. Booker; Robert L. Branham; Thomas R. Brown; Davis W. Brunson, Sr.; William E. Bubsey; Jimmy B. Burrell; Thomas H. Burrell; Frank Carruth; Willie Casey, Sr.; James F. Causey; Levi Chavous; Ruth D. Cooke; James W. Davis; John E. Driggers; William E. Dukes; Adelaide Dupre; Douglas T. Elkins; Bernest Ellerbe; Lois Elmore; John Erickson; Don Eykyn; Mary J. Fahey; Dr. Leslie E. Figa; George W. Fulmer; Charlaine Glover; Louise Grady; H.M. Grice; Grooms Oil Company; Dennis Harrison, Jr.; John Harte; Doyle C. Hayden; Lillian Hayes; George Hendricks; Jesse Herron; G.E. Hinson; Floyd Hiott; Kathleen Holliday; Robert Hudson; Paul Hughes, Jr.; Alfreda James; Larry Jenkins; Henry S. Johnson; George C. Kosko; Jim Leathenwood; Robert H. Lehman; Michael R. Lepors; Bobby G. Lott; Joe Lubelsky; T.W. Lyband; Daniel L. McAlpin; David McLellan; Purdy McLeod; Marvin Mabry; William Mapp, Jr.; Robert Marina, Jr.; Elizabeth J. Martin; W. Mason, Jr.; George Massey, Sr.; Samuel Masters; Elizabeth Mauney; James E. Mays; Vicki Mays; Merle Mellins; Fred Meyers; W. Irvin Molony; Dr. Carl Moore; Harry Morrow; Phillip Noel; Thomas O'Connor; Billy Parker; Jack L. Payne; Richard Pearl; Zelma Pettit; T.H. Preston; Harold B. Pruitt; Richard Puckharber; Laurie Quinn; Robert G. Richards; Walter L. Roark, Jr.; Rev. Daniel Runion; Oscar Russell; Robert F. Scholl; Livingston Scott; Frank D. Sellers; Jimmy Sheorn, Jr.; Dr. F.L. Shuler; Irene F. Simpson; Henry R. Sims; Paul C. Sova; Alex Stackhouse, Jr.; Sunbelt Thread & Tape, Inc.; Ann Sterne; Joshua Taylor; Paul Thode; Ann Thode; Bernice Todd; Doretha J. Todd; Mary Torrence; Early Vincent; Donald Wade; Dr. William Weathers; Mrs. David Weigle; George E. White; Leroy White; Horace Whitmire; Marvin Williams; David J. Worthington; Roy C. Young; Columbia Wholesale Company; David Ferguson; Robert E. Malpass; William J. Shepard, Jr.; Carl Shokes, Plaintiffs-Appellants, and Vivian Chester; Henry H. Freudenberg; Robert Gotterba; E.M. Hanna; Gerald Harley; S. Todd and Judy Lewis; Karen Lucas; Courtney Plante; W.H. Singleton; Major R.C. Smith; Berneta Thames, Plaintiffs, v. GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided August 22, 1989.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied September 27, 1989.

Rehearing Denied October 24, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard A. Lockridge (Vance K. Opperman, William Gengler, Opperman & Paquin, Minneapolis, Minn., Armand G. Derfner, Law Office of Armand Derfner, P.A., Charleston, S.C., B. Ervin Brown, II, Winston Salem, N.C., Beverly C. Moore, Jr., Sandra D. Benson, Stuart J. Logan, Moore & Brown, Washington, D.C., Arthur M. Kaplan, Edward B. Rock, David A. Kahne, Fine, Kaplan & Black, Philadelphia, Pa., on brief) for plaintiffs-appellants.

James H. Schink (Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago, Ill., Wade H. Logan, III, Holmes & Thomson, Charleston, S.C., Lee A. Schutzman, Detroit, Mich., on brief), for defendant-appellee.

Before PHILLIPS and CHAPMAN, Circuit Judges, and WILLIAMS, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, sitting by designation.

Rehearing and Rehearing In Banc Denied September 27, 1989.

PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge:

This case involves alleged defects in 5.7-liter diesel automobile engines manufactured by the defendant-appellee, the General Motors Corporation (GM), in model years 1981 through 1985. In a seventy-four page amended complaint filed on behalf of 183 named claimants and a prospective class of "similarly situated" car owners1 — all of whom at...

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