N.J. federal judge OK’s class action suit against top field turf company

By  Jackie Roman | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
In 2016, the borough of Carteret filed a lawsuit against a top U.S. maker of artificial turf for knowingly selling a defective product. A a New Jersey federal judge has now ruled that the case could become a class action suit involving several other municipalities and school districts throughout New Jersey, as well as New York, Pennsylvania and California.
In his July ruling, U.S. district judge Michael A. Shipp allowed 16 plaintiffs to move forward with a class action suit against FieldTurf USA, the synthetic turf division of Tarkett, on the grounds of defect and deception, finding “by a preponderance of the evidence that plaintiffs ‘present a pair of issues that can most efficiently be determined on a class-wide basis’.”

Shipp wrote the court found class-wide evidence “FieldTurf concealed the defects impacting durability when marketing and selling to plaintiffs” with “discovery produced thus far indicating that FieldTurf was aware of issues with the Duraspine turf and did not disclose those issues to purchasers.”

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