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202518P.pdf 08/16/2021 Bryan Forrest v. Polaris Industries, Inc.
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 20-2518
U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
[PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Wollman and Kobes, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Products liability. Plaintiffs brought this putative class
action alleging a design defect caused their Polaris off-road vehicles to
produce excessive heat; 7 of the 14 plaintiffs experienced fires which
destroyed their vehicles; the district court dismissed the claims of the 7
plaintiffs whose vehicles had not caught fire, concluding they had failed
to allege an injury in fact as required to establish an Article III case
or controversy, and these 7 non-fire plaintiffs appeal. The district court
correctly applied Eighth Circuit precedent in determining that the no-fire
purchasers failed to allege an injury sufficient to confer standing.