Hellman
Hellman v. Polaris Industries, Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 Francisco Berlanga, No. 2:21-cv-00949-KJM-DMC Plaintiff, ORDER v. Polaris Industries Inc., et al., 1S Defendants. 16 The plaintiffs in this action allege defendant Polaris Industries, Inc. misrepresented the 18 strength of the rollover protective systems on its utility terrain vehicles. See generally First Am. Compl., ECF No. 22. They filed their original complaint in 2021. See generally Compl., ECF No. 1. Another nearly identical action is currently pending in the United States District Court for the Central District of California. That action was filed about two years before this one, in 2019. See generally Compl., Guzman v. Polaris Indus. Inc., No. 19-1543 (C.D. Cal. Aug. 8, 2019), ECF No. 1. In both cases, the plaintiffs allege Polaris falsely claimed its vehicles’ rollover protective 24 systems met “OSHA requirements of 29 CFR § 1925.53,” and in both cases, a motion to…