The Firestone Recall of 2000

What Firestone said exactly one week before the massive recall of 6.5 million of its Firestone ATX, ATXII, and Wilderness tires in September, 2000:

On the day of the tire recall, Firestone said:

WOULD A TIRE MANUFACTURER VOLUNTARILY RECALL MILLIONS OF GOOD QUALITY TIRES?

FIRESTONE SAYS IT DID!

Two weeks after recalling 6.5 million tires, Firestone said this about its recalled tires:

ONE MONTH AFTER THE FIRESTONE RECALL, USA TODAY REPORTED THAT 58 COMPLAINTS AND 5 INJURIES HAD OCCURRED SINCE THE RECALL.

Three weeks after the recall, Firestone said:

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Hernandez v. The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company Bee County, Texas

“The Court finds the Defendant Firestone’s conduct to constitute an egregious misuse of the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure on discovery. Sanctions are necessary and fully justified.”

“[T]he Court finds that there has been a deliberate and calculated course of conduct by the Defendant Firestone during discovery which has concealed the truth and misled the Plaintiffs at times when such information could and should have been furnished to Plaintiffs. As a result, Plaintiffs were purposefully misled as to much of Defendant’s knowledge. . . . It was not an inadvertent omission or oversight, which Defendant Firestone attempted timely to correct, but a deliberate campaign and effort to avoid producing the evidence at all or until so late in preparation for trial that it comes too late.”

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