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Law Practice

Dec. 24, 2009

Lawyer: Internal Toyota Documents Have No New Evidence

A Texas lawyer has concluded that internal Toyota Motor Corp. documents provided to him by a disgruntled former company lawyer do not contain any new evidence worthy of re-opening rollover crash cases, and has voluntarily dismissed 17 of them against the company, the Daily Journal has learned. E. Todd Tracy of Dallas had tried reopening the cases after Dimitrios P. Biller, a former Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. in-house counsel filed a federal civil racketeering lawsuit against the automaker in July, claiming Toyota executives and attorneys routinely suppressed, concealed and destroyed evidence in dozens of lawsuits related to deadly rollover crashes. But "the documents I reviewed did not provide evidence sufficient to me to continue prosecuting these refiled cases at this time," Tracy said in an e-mailed statement.

A Texas lawyer has concluded that internal Toyota Motor Corp. documents provided to him by a disgruntled former company lawyer do not contain any new evidence worthy of re-opening rollover crash cases, and has voluntarily dismissed 17 of them against the company, the Daily Journal has learned. E. Todd Tracy of Dallas had tried reopening the cases after Dimitrios P. Biller, a former Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A. in-house counsel filed a federal civil racketeering lawsuit against the automaker i...

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