A federal judge has ordered a plaintiffs expert in the litigation over Toyota’s sudden-acceleration defect to comply with a demand to explain how confidential discovery materials were leaked into the public domain.

U.S. District Judge James Selna of the Central District of California has ordered plaintiffs expert Michael Barr to respond to limited discovery by Toyota Motor Corp. regarding how Betsy Benjaminson, a self-described whistleblower, acquired documents she couldn’t have obtained while working as a translator in the defect litigation.

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