The litigation in San Francisco is a consolidation of hundreds of lesson actions filed on behalf of more than 500000 owners and lease-holders of VW diesel vehiclesJohn Edwards,the disgraced former presidential candidate, is among more than 140 plaintiffs’ lawyers competing to lead private litigation against Volkswagen over its emissions cheating scandal. Edwards, or the ex-senator who was a trial lawyer in North Carolina before his political career was felled by a sex scandal,sent a letter to US district judge Charles Breyer of San Francisco last Friday, asking to be appointed to the powerful plaintiffs’ steering committee.
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Source: theguardian.com