Joseph A. WHITE, III and John L. Monson, Anthony J. Cashiola, Sr.
v.
GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION, Brockhoeft's Chevrolet, Inc. and Hanks Pontiac-GMC-Buick, Inc.
Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
June 29, 1998.
Rehearing Denied August 28, 1998.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
J. Burton LeBlanc, IV, Jules B. LeBlanc, III, Cameron R. Waddell, Charles S. Lambert, Jr., Baton Rouge, and C. Jerome D'Aquila, New Roads, and Victor J. Woods, Jr., Port Allen, for the Objectors Fred T. Butcher, et al./1st Appellant.
Robert Leslie Porche, San Antonio, TX, Intervenor/Pro Se/2nd Appellant.
Jack M. Stolier, Bryan J. De Tray, New Orleans, Joe R. McCray San Francisco, CA, Richard H. Rosenthal, Carmel Valley, CA, and Lyndel Selden, II, San Diego, CA, for Jack French, Robert West, Charles Merritt, Joseph D. Geller and Dan Turek/3rd Appellants.
Daniel E. Becnel, Jr., Reserve, for Intervenor, Kenneth Hight/4th Appellant.
Charles C. Holbrook, Baton Rouge, and Scott A. Johnson, Clyde C. Greco, Jr., Robert B. Gerard, San Diego, CA, Andrew W. Hutton Wichita, KS, Elizabet Cabraser, San Francisco, CA, Dianne M. Nast, Lancaster, PA, and Marc Stanley, Dallas, TX, for Jesus Garibay, Robert & Lucille White, Jerome Hope, Jr. and Carlos Zabala/5th Appellants.
Timothy J. Crowley, Richard E. Norman, McKool Smith, Houston, TX, and Sam F. Baxter, Rosemary Snider, Franklin Jones, Marshall, TX, for Intervenors, Tommy Dollar, Jerry Adam and Terry Adam.
Stephen Gardner, Dallas, TX, for Center for Auto Safety.
Davis B. Allgood, Baton Rouge, David Radlauer, New Orleans, Lee Schutzman, Detroit, MI, Jeffrey Rosen, Karen Walker, Washington, DC, and Harry T. Hardin, III, Gretna, for General Motors Corp./6th Appellant.
Michael G. Crow, Karen Lewis, New Orleans, Patrick W. Pendley, Lawrence G. Gettys, Nyle A. Politz, Plaquemine, Gordon Ball, Knoxville, TN, Richard Alexander, Michael McShane, San Jose, CA, and Bryan Wolfman, Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.
David H. Williams, New Orleans, for Betty Youngs, et al.
Anne Crabbe, Chicago, IL, for Certificate Clearing Corporation.
Jesse Sumner Bartlesville, OK, for Consumer Objectors.
Michael Pfundstein, Miami, FL, for Objector, Darol Carr.
Before LOTTINGER, C.J., and SHORTESS and FOGG, JJ.
Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.
LOTTINGER, Chief Judge.
This is an appeal from a final judgment and order, approving the settlement of a nationwide class action following the certification of the settlement class. The class members are approximately 5.8 million individuals who, over an 18 year period, purchased mid- and full-sized General Motors pickup trucks with a model C, K, R or V chassis. In petitions filed throughout the country, it was alleged that these trucks were defective in design because...
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