LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) – Class action status is being sought for a lawsuit against Ford Motor Co. over a type of transmission that renders Ford Focuses from 2011 to 2015 “virtually inoperable,” the lawsuit said.

In the lawsuit, filed on Feb. 20 in a California state court, Kevin and Andrea Klipfel and other unnamed plaintiff, are suing Ford Motor Co., plus 10 unnamed individual defendants. The plaintiffs are seeking a jury trial to hear its allegations that Ford violated the California Consumer Legal Remedies Act, the Unfair Competition Law, the Song-Beverly Consumer Warranty Act, the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act and express warranty guarantees under the California Commercial Code.