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BRUSSELS – Owners of vehicles equipped with so-called defeat devices have a right to compensation from the vehicle manufacturer, an adviser to the top EU court said on Thursday in a case brought against Mercedes-Benz. Defeat devices are mechanisms or software that can change vehicle emissions …
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday turned away appeals from Volkswagen that sought to stop state and local lawsuits related to the 2015 scandal in which the automaker was found to have rigged its vehicles to cheat U.S. diesel emissions tests. The court’s action allows suits by Ohio, Salt Lake …
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BRUSSELS — A top European Union legal adviser said Thursday that software installed in Volkswagen cars to alter the amount of pollutants coming out of their exhaust pipes in hot or cold weather and at high altitude doesn’t conform to the 27-nation bloc’s laws. The case arose when Austrian courts …
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KARLSRUHE, Germany — Volkswagen must fully compensate customers who took out loans to buy diesel cars that were discovered to be fitted with devices to cheat emissions tests, a German court has ruled. The Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe on Tuesday dismissed the German carmaker’s appeal and …
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WASHINGTON — Volkswagen AG and German auto supplier Bosch on Tuesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a lower-court ruling that said two counties could seek financial penalties over excess diesel emissions that could total billions of dollars. The German automaker’s U.S. unit and Robert …
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FRANKFURT — A court in Braunschweig, Germany, on Thursday said it had opened proceedings against former Volkswagen Chief Executive Martin Winterkorn examining whether he is guilty of market manipulation as part of an emissions scandal. Winterkorn and other Volkswagen executives face charges for …
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FRANKFURT — A court in Braunschweig, Germany, on Thursday said it had opened proceedings against former Volkswagen Chief Executive Martin Winterkorn examining whether he is guilty of market manipulation as part of an emissions scandal. Winterkorn and other Volkswagen executives face charges for …
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