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In a positive sign for plaintiffs’ lawyers and their clients involved in litigation against Toyota over problems regarding sudden acceleration, a Federal judge in California has tentatively decided not to dismiss the first of hundreds of lawsuits. Over 14 million vehicles were recalled by Toyota due to acceleration problems in several models together with brake defects. Toyota has maintained that the problems were due to driver error, faulty floor mats, and sticky accelerator pedals for the unintended acceleration and this issue is being contentiously fought by many auto defects and plaintiffs’ catastrophic injury and wrongful death lawyers deeply committed to consumer and automobile safety.

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Internal emails from Toyota executives acknowledged the sudden acceleration issue and urged the company that it was time to come clean. Company executives even went so far as to say, “We are not protecting our customers by keeping this quiet.” “The time has come not to hide on this one.” The email appears to be a response to one earlier in the day from Katsuhiko Konagei, Communications Coordinator. In Konagei’s email, he stated that Toyota should not mention the mechanical failure of the accelerator pedals because the company had not yet clarified the problem or settled on a remedy. This email was among 70,000 pages of documents requested from the company by the Transportation Department and Congressional Committees which are investigating Toyota’s recalls (The New York Times).

The judicial panel indicated in a decision on Friday, April 9th by the U.S. Judicial Panel Multi-district Litigation that a single judge will hear all important pre-trial motions for all Toyota cases.