{"id":1674,"date":"2024-07-05T17:36:32","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T17:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/nj-court-grants-preliminary-settlement-approval-in-defective-field-turf-mdl\/"},"modified":"2024-07-05T17:36:32","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T17:36:32","slug":"nj-court-grants-preliminary-settlement-approval-in-defective-field-turf-mdl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/nj-court-grants-preliminary-settlement-approval-in-defective-field-turf-mdl\/","title":{"rendered":"NJ Court Grants Preliminary Settlement Approval in Defective Field Turf MDL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>A New Jersey federal magistrate judge has <a href=\"https:\/\/images.law.com\/contrib\/content\/uploads\/documents\/399\/115056\/Preliminary-Injunction-Turf.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">preliminarily approved<\/a> a class action settlement in multidistrict litigation over allegedly defective synthetic field turf which included plaintiffs in California, Florida, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>The suits alleged that FieldTurf USA, based in Calhoun, Georgia, installed artificial turf in 1,700 soccer, baseball and other sports venues in the United States from 2005 to 2012, generating $570 million. The lawsuits, half of which are class actions, were filed after a series of articles published in December by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fieldturf.nj.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NJ Advance Media<\/a>\u00a0reported that the turf was defective.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New Jersey federal magistrate judge has preliminarily approved a class action settlement in multidistrict litigation over allegedly defective synthetic field turf which included plaintiffs in California, Florida, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2353,143,2354,2355,1150,1073,2352,399,2356],"class_list":["post-1674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-approval","tag-court","tag-defective","tag-field","tag-grants","tag-mdl","tag-preliminary","tag-settlement","tag-turf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}