( September 17, 2026, 9:29 AM EDT) -- CHICAGO — Consumers suing Ford Motor Co. for allegedly selling and leasing certain F-150 trucks with defective transmissions are precluded from pursuing warranty-related claims as a class due to a class action waiver in the warranty and failed on their non-warranty-related claims “to present sufficiently persuasive evidence to show that the class vehicles suffer from a common defect attributable to a common cause,” a federal judge in Illinois ruled....