Money & the Law: Class action lawsuit has many requirements
Toyota, like other vehicle manufacturers, is no stranger to class-action litigation but, for the last five years, Toyota has been fighting a class-action lawsuit wherein the true bad actor is, well, rodents. The plaintiffs (who correctly concluded Toyota has more money than the rodents) claim Toyota replaced vinyl chloride wiring in its vehicles with wiring based on a soy product. This, the plaintiffs say, attracted rodents, which then ate the wiring in their vehicles and left them stranded, or with expensive repairs. The first court to hear the case, a federal district court in California, d...