"Lawyers Strike Deal in Ford's SUV Class Suit"

Tuesday's Daily Journal reported that a settlement may be in the offing in the Ford case:

Ford Motor Co. and lawyers for more than 414,000 California owners of Explorers announced Monday that they have reached a tentative settlement in the nation's first consumer class action to go to trial over the sport-utility vehicle. Sacramento County Superior Court Judge David De Alba met with lawyers for a half hour before announcing he had canceled closing arguments in the non-jury case because the parties had reached an apparent resolution.

"Lawyers Strike Deal in Ford's SUV Class Suit: High-Stakes Trial of Explorer Avoids Closing Arguments" (subscription).

If a settlement is reached, I will certainly be happy for the class, but I will be very disappointed not to see the legal rulings that the case would have generated on some cutting-edge UCL issues!