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... . DaimlerChrysler Corp. The class action settlement covers the more than one million people who bought or leased a Jeep Grand Cherokee between 1999 and 2004. The class action complaint alleged that the brakes ... lodestar factor based on hours actually worked. Several news reports provide greater details on the settlement. One such report, entitled "N.J. Judge OKs $14.5M Settlement in Class Action Over Bad Jeep Brakes," by Mary P. Gallagher of the New Jersey Law Journal, may be found in a December 29 ...