(MENAFN) US Volkswagen AG has requested an American judge on Friday to postpone several court trials it is facing over excess discharges because it fears "inflammatory" comments made by a lawyer representing car owners in a recent TV documentary will prejudice the jury.
The German carmaker is being sued by some consumers after it admitted in September 2015 to cheating on diesel emissions tests.
According to a legal filing, Volkswagen of America asked a judge in Fairfax County, Virginia to setback that trial for at least six months on Friday after a lawyer for more than 300 US VW diesel owners, gave an interview in which he referred to the company testing diesel fumes on monkeys.
The company's lawyers said that "pretrial publicity has connected (the company) directly with Hitler and the Holocaust," which they said was not related to a trial about alleged consumer fraud allegations.
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