The relationship between Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc., and one of its former staff lawyers has gone from bad to worse. After Dimitrios Biller left the carmaker two years ago, he signed a confidentiality clause that levies a hefty penalty for each violation. Since last fall, Toyota has been pursuing a state court action in which it claims that Biller breached the clause by publicizing privileged information about the company’s litigation. This summer Biller responded with a suit of his own in federal court in which he maintained that Toyota withheld evidence in personal injury cases involving the company’s vehicles.
The claims in the dispute are getting increasingly heated. According to Biller’s complaint, “Key Toyota executives have conspired, and continue to conspire, to unlawfully withhold evidence from plaintiffs and obstruct justice in lawsuits throughout the United States.” In a filing in its state court action, Toyota argued that Biller’s conduct “is driven by his own selfish financial interests and a desire to damage [Toyota] and his former colleagues.”
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