Ford Motor Co. is asking a California federal court to dismiss a putative class action alleging its Focus and Fusion models have defective power steering systems, arguing the plaintiffs have not pleaded facts sufficient to establish a warranty claim or any other claim.
“Plaintiffs have alleged almost no specific facts about their own claims, instead choosing to fill pages by (for example) quoting other consumers’ complaints…and trying to depict the possibility of having to steer a relatively small car manually as an unreasonably dangerous hazard,” states Ford’s motion filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Jose.
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