Products Liability
Volkswagen "Clean Diesel" Marketing, Sales Practices, and Products Liability Litigation
Pending actions
130
Historical total
1,889
Resolved / remanded
1,759
Active. A substantial share of actions remain pending. Of 1,889 lawsuits ever part of this litigation, 130 remain active.
About this litigation
Volkswagen "Clean Diesel" Marketing, Sales Practices, and Products Liability Litigation is a federal multidistrict litigation classified by the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation as a Products Liability docket. It was centralized on December 8, 2015 before Charles R. Breyer, Sr. District Judge, in the N.D. California.
As of the August 3, 2026 JPML report, 130 individual lawsuits are pending in this MDL. Cases coordinated in an MDL keep their separate identity — they are managed together only for pretrial proceedings. Learn how MDLs work.
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