Alberto v. Toyota Motor Corp.

Defendant Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A., Inc.,1 appeals by leave granted the trial court’s order that denied its motion for a protective order to quash the depositions of two corporate officers, Yoshimi Inaba and Jim Lentz. We vacate the trial court’s order and remand this case for further proceedings.

I. FACTS AND UNDERLYING PROCEEDINGS

This is a personal-injury, products-liability suit wherein plaintiff seeks to depose two high-ranking Toyota corporate officers in connection with the claim that a defect in a Toyota vehicle caused the accident that resulted in the death of plaintiffs decedent.

Plain…