Class action counsel for plaintiffs who allege Whirlpool Corp.’s Duet front-load washing machines grow mold can’t modify the definition of the class just yet.

The plaintiffs moved to eliminate from the class some consumers who bought Whirlpool washers containing design changes made in 2009. The plaintiff said that would make their case conform to how the class is defined in Butler v. Sears, Roebuck & Co., a similar lawsuit pending in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

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