Court Curbs Deposition of Lawyer in GM Switch Case

A federal judge largely acceded to General Motors’ request to limit plaintiffs’ deposition of Jenner & Block Chairman Anton Valukas in the automaker’s ignition switch defect litigation (In re Gen. Motors LLC Ignition Switch Litig., 2015 BL 258430, S.D.N.Y., 14-MD-02543 (JMF), 8/11/15).

Valukas—who was hired to conduct an internal investigation into the circumstances leading up to GM’s recall of the Cobalt and other cars due to the flawed ignition switch—ultimately concluded in a May 2014 report that GM engineers and lawyers who knew of the potentially dangerous defect didn’t inform top managers.

Judge Jesse Furman of the ...