Reported / Citable
Background
Toyota Motor North America, Inc. and Toyota Motor Corporation filed a motion to dismiss in the lead case. Kia defendants filed a separate motion to dismiss in Member Case No. 2:25-cv-001151.
Magistrate Judge Payne issued a report and recommendation advising that both motions be denied. Toyota and Kia filed objections, and no responses to those objections were filed.
The Court’s Holding
District Judge Rodney Gilstrap conducted a de novo review of the motion-to-dismiss briefing, the report and recommendation, and the briefing on the defendants’ objections. The court agreed with the report and recommendation’s reasoning and concluded that the objections did not show it was erroneous.
The court therefore overruled Toyota’s and Kia’s objections, adopted the report and recommendation, and denied both motions to dismiss.
Key Takeaways
- The court reviewed the challenged portions of the report and recommendation de novo.
- The defendants’ objections did not establish error in the magistrate judge’s analysis.
- Both Toyota’s and Kia’s motions to dismiss were denied.
Why It Matters
The order leaves the claims challenged by Toyota and Kia pending rather than terminating them at the motion-to-dismiss stage. The one-page order adopts the magistrate judge’s reasoning without independently describing the claims or the grounds asserted for dismissal.