June 15, 2015
Plaintiffs in multidistrict litigation accusing General Motors Co. of selling vehicles with faulty ignition switches on Friday added allegations that GM violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act by working with its attorneys at King & Spalding LLP and its claims administrator, ESIS, to conceal the defect.
June 12, 2015
Plaintiffs targeting General Motors Co. in multidistrict litigation over allegedly faulty ignition switches made serious allegations Thursday that the automaker's outside counsel King & Spalding LLP facilitated a cover-up, but plaintiffs may need to deliver proof the attorneys knew and hid the defect for the court to unearth privileged communications.
May 06, 2015
Attorneys involved in ongoing General Motors Co. litigation apologized Tuesday to a bankruptcy judge who vented his frustration after learning in the press that lawyers representing ignition switch defect plaintiffs planned to appeal one of his decisions, blaming the oversight on the need to be prepared for a related district court hearing.
April 20, 2015
The New York federal judge in charge of multidistrict litigation over General Motors LLC's ignition switch defects on Friday approved GM's plan to turn over various documents it already gave to federal agencies, giving it the power to claw back documents produced inadvertently.
April 16, 2015
In upholding General Motors Co.'s shield blocking suits over actions that occurred before the auto giant's 2009 collapse, a New York bankruptcy judge may have precluded plaintiffs in litigation over the carmaker's deadly ignition switch defect from arguing a continuing pattern of deception, an argument they need to put New GM on the hook for hefty punitive damages.
March 19, 2015
General Motors Co.'s CEO Mary Barra and several of its current and former executives including the retired global vehicle engineering vice president John Calabrese are scheduled to be deposed in the ignition switch multidistrict litigation consolidated in New York federal court, a lead attorney for the plaintiffs said Thursday.
March 13, 2015
A New York federal judge on Friday granted a Georgetown Law professor's request to reinstate the roughly 130 economic loss lawsuits the court had dismissed in December, after the professor argued that those cases should be allowed to proceed in their own right even if they are not integrated with the consolidated complaints in the suit.
January 15, 2015
A New York federal judge on Thursday refused to force General Motors LLC to hand over Jenner & Block LLP attorneys' notes on interviews conducted during firm chairman Anton Valukas' internal investigation of the automaker, saying the materials are protected work product.
January 05, 2015
A Georgetown Law professor representing car owners suing General Motors LLC over alleged economic losses related to its recent spate of recalls told a New York federal judge on Friday that hundreds of cases were improperly dismissed from the multidistrict litigation last month "without legal basis" and in violation of the parties' due process rights.
November 17, 2014
General Motors Co. will extend the deadline for applications to its ignition switch compensation fund from Dec. 31 to Jan. 31, the automaker said Sunday, amid criticism that it already hit long delays in notifying eligible victims including the family of a woman who died in 2003.