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 [...]

Nearly 200 lawsuits filed against Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc. will be consolidated in the Central District of California, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation announced on Friday. The panel appeared to have been swayed by two arguments that Toyota’s lead counsel maintained during a hearing last month in San Diego: 1.   Toyota’s U.S. headquarters is [...]

  As we reported yesterday (along with 8 gazillion other media reports) ABC News had reported a few weeks ago that a former Toyota product liability lawyer had accused Toyota of hiding information in product liability suits.  The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed his documents and found that they showed Toyota hid internal data recording Toyota testing [...]