Judge to Toyota: Lawsuit Will Not Be Sealed

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Muhammed El-Hasan
on September 18, 2009 11:30 AM | | Comments (0) |

If it the information was all in the public domain already, how would sealing it now help Toyota?


Toyota's Request to Seal U.S. Racketeering Suit Denied by Judge

Sept. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Toyota Motor Corp.'s request to seal a U.S. lawsuit by a former in-house attorney claiming the carmaker destroyed crash data was denied yesterday by a judge who said the suit was already "irreversibly" public.

The suit, filed in July by Dimitrios Biller, a former Toyota in-house lawyer, claims the world's largest automaker hid engineering and testing results in more than 300 car- rollover cases. The company is "disappointed" with the decision, said Mike Michels, a Toyota spokesman.

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