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Product Liability

Mar. 27, 2010

Structure, Venue Weighed for Toyota Suits

The five federal-judge panel charged with choosing the venue for more than 100 lawsuits against Toyota Motor Corp. appears to be weighing whether the mass tort should be consolidated into one enormous case or two still-large ones.

By Ciaran McEvoy

Daily Journal Staff Writer

SAN DIEGO - A five federal-judge panel charged with choosing the venue for more than 100 lawsuits against Toyota Motor Corp. appears to be weighing whether the mass tort should be consolidated for the purposes of discovery into one enormous matter or two still-large ones.

In an hour-long hearing in a courtroom so packed attorneys were spilling into an adjacent hallway, the U.S. Judici...

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