Originally published Saturday, June 11, 2011 at 5:09 PM
Lawsuit against Toyota headed for 2013 trial
After years of legal wrangling, the first of hundreds of lawsuits against Toyota Motor Corp. over vehicle acceleration problems has been scheduled for trial.
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LOS ANGELES — After years of legal wrangling, the first of hundreds of lawsuits against Toyota Motor Corp. over vehicle acceleration problems has been scheduled for trial.
The bellwether lawsuit, over a crash that killed two people in Utah, will be the first to be weighed in court, a federal judge said Friday.
U.S. District Judge James Selna told attorneys the case of 38-year-old Charlene Jones Lloyd and 66-year-old Paul Van Alfen, whose Toyota Camry slammed into a wall in Utah in 2010, is scheduled to go to trial in February 2013.

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