When Toyota Motor Corp.’s attorneys learned this year that a former translator was posting thousands of internal documents related to its sudden-acceleration recalls on her blog, they rushed to court hoping a federal judge would intervene.
U.S. District Judge James Selna, who had issued a protective order in the multidistrict litigation against Toyota over the recalls, quickly ordered Betsy Benjaminson, the translator and self-described whistleblower, to show why she shouldn’t be sanctioned for her conduct. On Dec. 3, he tentatively sanctioned her over 46 documents she obtained while working as a translator for the plaintiffs attorneys in the litigation.
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