July 7, 2026
A Michigan federal judge on Monday refused General Motors LLC’s bid for the names and contact dates of drivers who reached out to plaintiffs’ counsel in a faulty transmission suit, ruling that the information gathering would be overly burdensome to the plaintiffs and of limited value to GM’s statute of limitations defense.
U.S. District Judge David M. Lawson issued the ruling in a long-running case involving GM vehicles from the 2015 to 2018 model years equipped with eight-speed Hydra-Matic transmissions that allegedly shuddered and lurched.
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Harper and Ulrich are represented by Theodore Leopold, Douglas J. McNamara, Madelyn Petersen and Karina G. Puttieva of Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC, Russell D. Paul, Natalie Lesser and Amey J. Park of Berger Montague, Steven Calamusa, Geoff Stahl and Rachel Bentley of Gordon & Partners PA, Cody R. Padgett, Abigail Gertner, Shahin Rezvani and Majdi Hijazin of Capstone Law APC, E. Powell Miller, Emily E. Hughes and Sharon S. Almonrode of The Miller Law Firm PC, Joseph H. Meltzer and Melissa L. Yeates of Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check LLP, Lynn Lincoln Sarko, Gretchen Freeman Cappio and Ryan McDevitt of Keller Rohrback LLP, and Michael L. Pitt and Beth Rivers of Pitt McGehee Palmer and Rivers PC.
Read GM’s Discovery Bid in Transmission Suit Ruled Burdensome.