U.S. Court Certifies Class in Drywall Action against Chinese Companies
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana has issued an order certifying a class estimated to include over 4,000 people in a series of cases that plaintiffs in Louisiana, Virginia, Florida, and Mississippi filed against Chinese government-owned companies for manufacturing and distributing defective drywall, according to Arnold Levin of Levin Fishbein Sedran & Berman. The defendants are known as the “Taishan Defendants.”
The Court certified the Class defined as “all owners of real properties in the United States, who are named Plaintiffs on the complaints” in those cases and appointed five sets of plaintiffs to act as class representatives.