The first bellwether trial chosen by plaintiffs to try to hold General Motors liable for defective ignition switches fell apart Thursday.
With lawyers for the automaker poised to present evidence that plaintiff Robert Scheuer and his wife, Lisa Scheuer, lied about his injuries following the 2014 crash of his Saturn Ion and misrepresented the financial consequences of those injuries, Southern District Judge Jesse Furman said he had to assume the couple had committed “a fraud on the court and on the jury.”
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