Court Consolidates 7 Fraud Cases Involving Faulty SanDisk SSD Claims

U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria for Northern California granted plaintiffs’ motion to consolidate seven fraud cases against Western Digital under In re: SanDisk SSDS Litigation, said his Wednesday order (docket 3:23-cv-04206) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco. The cases involve allegedly defective SanDisk solid-state drives (see 2308240026). Class leadership motions must be filed within seven days, and a consolidated class action complaint is due within 21 days of the order establishing class leadership. Cases in the consolidated action are Krum v. Western Digital Technologies (docket 3:23-cv-04152), Perrin, et al. v. SanDisk (docket 5:23-cv-04201), Jafri v. SanDisk (docket 5:23-cv-04206), Pousa v. Western Digital Technologies (docket 3:23-cv-04281) Bax v. Western Digital (docket 5:23-cv-04543), Jackson v. Western Digital (docket 3:23-cv-04681) and Gary v. SanDisk (docket 3:23-cv-04815).