Archive for August, 2009
Monday 31 August 2009 @ 11:40 pm
In a lawsuit, lawyer says Toyota repeatedly forced him to illegally withhold information from victims of hundreds of accidents that resulted in deaths and injuries. Toyota spent years concealing evidence from victims of hundreds of rollover accidents that resulted in death and injury, a former top lawyer for the automaker says.
Monday 31 August 2009 @ 11:02 pm
The start of school is less than two weeks away, and anything connected with it is in high gear. Parents and children are rushing around buying supplies.
Monday 31 August 2009 @ 11:02 pm
Sept. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Toyota Motor Corp. may face demands that rollover-crash cases it won or settled be reopened, in light of accusations by a former company lawyer that the company hid records sought by plaintiffs.
Monday 31 August 2009 @ 10:16 pm
Carrie Prejean has filed a lawsuit against Miss California USA officials who stripped her of her title, accusing them of libel and religious discrimination for her views on same-sex marriage.
Monday 31 August 2009 @ 9:54 pm
The company posted videos on its Web site of meetings in Ecuador that appear to implicate officials connected to a $27 billion lawsuit over environmental damages.
Monday 31 August 2009 @ 9:43 pm
There is a new wrinkle in Chevron's environmental lawsuit case in Ecuador.
Monday 31 August 2009 @ 9:38 pm
Carrie Prejean claims in a lawsuit filed Monday that she was fired as Miss California USA in an act of religious discrimination by pageant officials Shanna Moakler and Keith Lewis.
Monday 31 August 2009 @ 9:29 pm
Aug. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Chevron Corp. says it will seek to replace an Ecuadorean judge presiding over a $27 billion environmental lawsuit against the company, claiming videotapes show he met with a company contractor who was asked to pay a bribe by a Quito political operative.
Monday 31 August 2009 @ 9:23 pm
Aug. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Chevron Corp. says it has videotapes showing that the Ecuadorean government and a provincial judge overseeing a $27 billion environmental lawsuit may have sought $3 million in bribes from businessmen seeking to gain contracts to clean up chemical waste in the Amazon basin.
Monday 31 August 2009 @ 8:38 pm
Aug. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Toyota Motor Corp. may face demands that rollover-crash cases it won or settled be reopened, in light of accusations by a former company lawyer that the automaker hid records sought by plaintiffs.



