GM Wins Big in First Trial Over Deadly Ignition Switch
- Carmaker says driver doctored check stub to buy `dream house'
- Judge had urged the parties to resolve the case without jury
General Motors Co. world headquarters in Detroit.
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The Oklahoma mail carrier at the center of the first trial over General Motors Co.’s deadly ignition-switch defect is dropping his claims after he and his wife were accused of lying in court, in a major victory for the carmaker.
Robert Scheuer, 49, will walk away empty-handed, ending a lawsuit that was supposed to serve as a guide for hundreds of others against GM over the ignition switch, his lawyer said in a filing Friday in Manhattan federal court.