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KIA MOTORS AMERICA CORPORATION v. BUTLER

No. 3D05-1145.

985 So.2d 1133 (2008)

KIA MOTORS AMERICA CORPORATION, Appellant, v. Yvonne BUTLER, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

June 11, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary U.S. LLP, and Fredrick H.L. McClure, Christina M. Burden and E. Colin Thompson, Tampa, for appellant.

Shepherd Finkelman Miller & Shah, LLC, and Scott R. Shepherd and Natalie Finkelman Bennett, Weston; Donovan Searles, LLC and Michael D. Donovan, Philadelphia, PA, for appellees.

Before SHEPHERD, SUAREZ, and ROTHENBERG, JJ.

SHEPHERD, J.

We have for review a trial court order approving the prosecution of a "premature wear" class action, brought by the plaintiff, Yvonne Butler, on behalf of all Florida purchasers of 1999-2001 Kia Motors America Corporation Sephia model passenger motor vehicles. The central contention of the class action complaint is that all Kia Sephias manufactured in those years contain a brake system design defect that causes premature wear of the front brakes, as a...

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