Lawyers Head to New Orleans for Volkswagen Hearing

“These aren’t really business meetings,” said Mr. Burns, who supports sending the litigation to Virginia. “This gives us an opportunity to talk to folks, to network.” As for the actual arguments Thursday, “there’s an element of theater to it,” Mr. Burns said, since there’s not much you can say in two minutes past what the panel already knows. By the time of the hearing, the panel will have seen hundreds of court filings with arguments for various locations.

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