Obertman
Obertman v. Electrolux Home Care Products, Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 FELIX OBERTMAN, No. 2:19-cv-02487-KJM-AC Plaintiff, v. ORDER ELECTROLUX HOME CARE
PRODUCTS, INC.,
15 Defendant. 16 In this putative class action seeking damages for allegedly defective dehumidifiers, the parties dispute whether or not to bifurcate discovery into a class certification phase followed by a merits phase. Plaintiff filed this action on December 12, 2019. Compl., ECF No. 1. Defendant filed a motion to dismiss on March 4, 2020, ECF No. 7, which is still pending. The suit arises from a central claim that certain Frigidaire Dehumidifiers including model numbers FFAD3033R1, FFAD5033R1, FFAD7033R1 (collectively, the “products” or “dehumidifier”), suffer from a design defect that causes them to display an “F0” error message on the products’ control panel, rendering the products “completely useless.” First Am. Compl. (“FAC”) ¶ 1, ECF No. 12. On May 15, 2020, the court held a scheduling conference…