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Foreign Plaintiffs Try to Join US Trials Against Toyota

The California judge that is handling the cases against Toyota, has ruled that plaintiffs that wanted to join the US trails against Toyota that are holding the automaker responsible for the unintended acceleration of their vehicles, cannot join these cases. These groups were from over thirteen other countries. These plaintiffs were wanted to sue the automaker for the same reasons that the United States plaintiffs were suing, stating that due to the companies lack of safety regulations that they or someone in their family was injured and endangered due to these runaway cars. 

The judge stated that the foreign plaintiffs did not produce enough evidence that warranted them to be included with the court cases. However, even, despite that the judge really had no jurisdiction over their claims. The judge did say that the plaintiffs could try to change his mind with their evidence and he would see from there what he could do, however, the chances of the plaintiffs actually changing the judge's mind is slim to none. 

Toyota was grateful for the decision and stated that they agreed with the judge whole heartedly. With Toyota being available in almost every country, it would seem that the plaintiffs would want to handle this in their home country instead of coming to the US to do it. However, it could be that the plaintiffs home country are not focused as much on the recalls and the accidents that led to these as the US is, so they were hoping to get justice brought through utilizing the US trial system. However, plaintiffs lawyers from the US said that if the judge were to change his mind and allow the foreign plaintiffs to participate that it could really help their case against Toyota and bring the company down for their actions that led to the deaths and injuries of hundreds. Though, in all due respect, the judge made the right decision since this is trial is concerning the US accidents that were related to the recalls and the Toyota that is responsible in our country.