7 May 2010 — A federal judge in Los Angeles has declined a request by plaintiffs lawyers in a shareholder class action to force attorneys for Toyota Motor Corp. to turn over documents that were provided to Congress, which has been investigating vehicle recalls associated with sudden unintended acceleration defects. Instead, U.S. District Judge Dale [...]

  20 April 2010 — Toyota Motor Corp. agreed to pay a record $16.4 million fine that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) imposed earlier this month after finding that Toyota waited four months to report sudden acceleration defects in its vehicles. But in a written statement, Toyota denied that it violated safety regulations: “We agreed to [...]

There is a good article in today’s National Law Journal about the positioning going on by plaintiffs lawyers in the mounting litigation arising from the “sudden unintended acceleration”  problems in vehicles manufactured by Toyota.  For the full article click here.   As we have reported, Toyota has since announced a plan to fix the problems. In the [...]