The long struggle case lawsuit battle between the Lee family and Toyota regarding the 2010 car crash that took away the lives of 3 people and sent one man to prison had now take a new twist. Toyota has now claim that Koua Fong Lee and the Lee family had no rights to sue them in federal court to begin with cause the family was not US citizens at the time of the accident. Bob Hilliard, attorney for the driver, Koua Fong Lee said "It's amazingly ironic that a Japanese car company comes into the American Court system, and after losing a $11.4 million verdict where the jury determined its 1996 Toyota Camry was dangerous and defective, decides to challenge the right of a US citizen to a have his day in court. After 5 long years of litigation, a month long trial, and no real chance of winning on appeal, Toyota plays the 'race card'—this is as desperate as it is despicable. No different than when Japanese Americans were sent to internment camps."
Though Koua Fong Lee was not a US citizen at the time of the accident, an accident that a Minnesota jury recently determined was mostly caused by a defective 1996 Toyota Camry. After being released early in 2012, he immediately became a US Citizen. Something he was aiming to accomplished before this whole tragic mess occurred. It's a shame Toyota would go this far to take away any sort of justice from this family.
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