A federal judge has tentatively granted Toyota’s request to strike recent evidence from a plaintiff’s software expert who claims to have identified a bug in the electronic throttle control system’s source code responsible for unintended acceleration defects in its vehicles.

U.S. District Judge James Selna, who heard arguments on the request on Tuesday, found that the report, served this month, came four months after the deadline and following the close of expert discovery in the case.

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