Toyota Frame Settlement Postcard

Thank you cliff.

 

Been on vacation for 2.5 weeks and have not been on here. Came back today for updates and looks like we are still in the waiting game. I think I'll have better luck scraping the surface rust off, and coating it myself...

 

Ladies and gentlemen. It's official.

 

Whats offical?

 

????

 

Trolling, or do you know something we dont? According to the ToyotaFrameSettlement website there are no new updates.

 

Here's what I have found:

There have been ten appeals filed; nine by plaintiffs, one by the defendant;

This is the latest published docket for the case (note the scheduled dates):


In summary:

Dates:
06/30/2017: Mediation Questionnaires due;
07/19/2017: Transcripts due to be ordered;
10/17/2017: Transcripts due;
11/27/2017: Appellant Cemil Hope opening brief due;
12/27/2017: Appellees Ryan Burns, Dale Franquet, James Fuller, Jame Good, Kenneth McLeod, Michael Meade
Toyota USA, Brain Warner and Michael Watson answering briefs due;

Appellant's optional reply briefs are due 21 days after service of answering brief--i.e. 01/17/2018 at best¹;

After that there will likely need to be perhaps a renegotiation of the settlement agreement, another subsequent preliminary approval, and yet another round of all the notices, fairness hearing(s), etc. before a new final approval and order are entered. This could easily go on 'til next spring...

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¹ - However let's say one appellant is not served until 01/03/2018, then it becomes 01/24/2018 before anything else will happen.

 

Thats just great mine wont pass inspection and toyota told me i would know this month.

 

"Toyota" corporate or just some dealer?

 

2 dealers. They've actually been giving me the line, "we'll know something in a week or two" for the past month and a half.

 

Toyota dealers have at best only a loose affiliation with with Toyota Motor Cars, but beyond that their primary business is glad-handing¹. They will say whatever they believe will, at this specific point in time, be what the customer wants to hear. If you want a blue car they will turn on a blue light.

Their telling you "we'll know something in a week or two" for six weeks means they don't have a clue.

As to the lawsuit I had been going along with a December guesstimate another poster had put forth, but after reading the docket schedule my friend uncovered this morning I'm moving toward thinking March maybe; April or May more likely, June most likely. You have to remember that none of the on-stage players--the judges and certainly not the lawyers who bill by the hour, or the appellants who are all after their own interests--give a rat's back-end about the "class" members, the poor guy with his frame rusted so badly he can no longer drive his truck.

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¹ - Glad-Handing: being very friendly to people you have not met before, as a way of trying to get an advantage. (Cambridge)

 

Do you have an internet link to this?

 

Huh... I wonder is this was a document prepared in advance of the appeals being filed?

Or it could be that Toyota's "appeal" that was filed was a "throwing in the towel, let's get this ball rolling" thing.

What was your source?

 

The date said 7/17/17 yesterday

 

A company I worked for year ago had reached a settlement with the AFL-CIO, after which appeals were filed. A few months later they won some large defense contracts and notified the court they were going to concede on all points; essentially ending the suit...

 

If it has been distributed to dealers it could be a GO--we'll see...

 

I complained to Toyota and To a service manager about how this process has me stuck in limbo. (Truck getting worse everyday but also can't fix it on my own because I know this lawsuit was going to go through and also couldn't sell it because the frame was so bad) a few minutes later I got this 5 page memo from a service manager. Took my truck in this morning, got the inspection and got the parts ordered.

 

What dealer are you dealing with?

 

o my , for real? i will cheek in my area indiana so what would the memo be called or the code number?