The firm is also handling a wide variety of class actions. Dee Miles is currently a member of the Liaison Counsel Committee handling the Toyota Motor Corporation Unintended Acceleration Marketing, Sales Practices and Products Liability Litigation pending in the United States District Court for the Central District of California. We are pleased to report that the case is proceeding swiftly. The Court has disposed of many preliminary matters, such as Motions to Dismiss, Amendments to Complaints and Discovery Plan Orders.
We are currently in the second phase of discovery in the case which involves in-depth depositions, voluminous document reviews and expert matters. The MDL is seeking to begin actual trials of some the cases as early as 2013, but there is much work to do between now and then. As previously reported, the many class actions filed all over the country have been merged into a single consolidated Complaint. The discovery in both the class case and the individual death and serious injury cases are being conducted in harmony in an effort to expedite the cases for trial. This discovery process is also being done in conjunction with the many individual state cases that are not in the MDL, but are approaching trial dates as well. This effort appears to have been successful so far.
