9th Circuit Panel Denies Remaining Challenges To Kia, Hyundai Theft Settlement

( March 2, 2026, 3:16 PM EST) -- PASADENA, Calif. — In separate orders issued a day apart, a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel granted a consumer class’ motion for summary disposition, ending the last of three appeals by objectors to a class settlement worth between $80 million and $145 million in a multidistrict litigation based on the theft of Kia and Hyundai vehicles, and one day later, on Feb. 26, denied a petition for rehearing filed in the first of the three appeals....