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VW Diesel Drivers Head to Trial After Spurning $10 Billion Deal

  • Car owners who opted out of settlement want more compensation
  • Professor says punitive damages request is ‘big-ticket item’

The portable emissions testing system attached to the exhaust of a Volkswagen AG Golf.

Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg

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Volkswagen AG faces a new reckoning over its diesel-emissions scandal -- its first U.S. jury trial.