Legal News

Calif. Toyota litigation coordinated in L.A.

By Richard Binder

Dozens of sudden-acceleration lawsuits filed against Toyota Motor Corp. in California's state courts will be coordinated in Los Angeles. The order issued by Chief Justice Ronald George will please plaintiffs' lawyers, most of whom had argued for Los Angeles. Related federal multidistrict litigation encompassing more than 200 lawsuits is pending in Santa Ana.

"We have a very representative class section of citizenry in the L.A. area, rather than in Orange County, where you have a more conservative, more WASP-ish jury pool," said Garo Mardirossian, who represents the husband of a woman who died after her Toyota accelerated to 100 miles per hour and crashed into a median. "We would rather have a jury pool that best represents folks in Southern California, not just what we would find in Orange County." 

Full story on NLJ.com.

Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on June 11, 2010 (boomark / email).