Civil Litigation
Oct. 5, 2018
Judge refuses to dismiss consumers’ RICO claims against Volkswagen
Plaintiffs excluded from the Volkswagen diesel emissions scandal settlement because they no longer owned their cars after the fraud was discovered have survived a motion to dismiss.
Plaintiffs excluded from the Volkswagen diesel emissions scandal settlement, because they no longer owned their cars after the fraud was discovered, have survived a motion to dismiss.
U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer of San Francisco ruled Wednesday that former owners of the emission-cheating cars have standing to seek damages by "relying on a well-accepted theory of injury [overpayment] but with a novel twist."
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