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US Justice Department Issues Subpoenas to Tesla in Ongoing Probes
Oct 23 2023 // The U.S. Justice Department has sought documents and issued subpoenas to Tesla as it scrutinizes the automaker’s driver assistance system Autopilot and vehicle driving range, among other issues, the company said on...
Tesla Engineer Defends ‘Full Self-Driving’ Name at Crash Trial
Oct 6 2023 // A Tesla engineer in court on Wednesday rejected a lawyer’s suggestion that the company named its driver-assistant feature “Full Self-Driving” because it wanted people to believe that its systems had more...
Ex-Tesla Factory Worker Loses Bid in California for New Trial in Race Bias Case
Oct 4 2023 // A Black former factory worker for Tesla lost his bid on Wednesday for a third trial in his race discrimination lawsuit against the electric carmaker, after a California federal judge rejected his claims that the...
California Judge Rules Tesla Owners Must Arbitrate False Ad Claims Over Autopilot Feature
Oct 2 2023 // A California federal judge has ruled that a group of people who own cars made by Tesla Inc must pursue claims that the company misled the public about its autopilot features in individual arbitration rather than court. The...
Tesla Sued by US Agency Over Alleged Harassment of Black Factory Workers
Sep 29 2023 // A U.S. civil rights agency sued Tesla Inc. on Thursday, claiming the electric carmaker has tolerated severe harassment of Black employees at its flagship Fremont, California, assembly plant, in charges similar to cases...
Plaintiffs’ Attorney Cites ‘Experimental Vehicles’ in Tesla Trial Over Autopilot Fatality
Sep 29 2023 // The lawyer representing victims of a fatal crash of a Tesla Model 3 car in his opening statement in court on Thursday blamed the company’s Autopilot driver assistant system, saying that “a car company should...
Tesla Braces For Its First Trial Involving Autopilot Fatality
Sep 1 2023 // Tesla Inc. is set to defend itself for the first time at trial against allegations that failure of its Autopilot driver assistant feature led to death, in what will likely be a major test of Chief Executive Elon...
Tesla Faces More Questions From Feds on Autopilot Safety
Aug 30 2023 // The U.S. auto safety regulator investigating Tesla’s Autopilot driver assistance system is demanding an explanation for a software change that allows drivers to keep their hands off the wheel for longer, risking...
Tesla Investors to Get About $12,000 Apiece in Musk’s SEC Deal
Aug 25 2023 // A group of Tesla Inc. investors stands to recover an average of about $12,000 a head for losses they incurred from Elon Musk’s famous 2018 tweet that he had “funding secured” to take the carmaker private...
Tesla Data Breach Blamed on ‘Insider Wrongdoing’ Impacted 75,000
Aug 21 2023 // Tesla Inc.’s May data breach impacted more than 75,000 people, included employee-related records and was a result of “insider wrongdoing,” according to a notice posted by the office of the Maine Attorney...
Legal, Ethical Questions on Autopilot Endure as Criminal Case Against Tesla Driver Ends
Aug 17 2023 // A criminal prosecution against a Tesla driver in Los Angeles County could end next month, the final step of a case believed to be the first time in the U.S. prosecutors brought felony charges against a motorist who was...
NHTSA Probing Fatal Tesla Crash in Virginia, Adding to Investigations
Aug 11 2023 // Tesla Inc. is facing increased scrutiny as federal investigations said Thursday they are investigating a fatal crash in Virginia involving one of the company’s SUVs that collided with a tractor-trailer truck. The...
NHTSA Opens Probe Into 280,000 New Tesla Vehicles Over Steering Issue
Aug 1 2023 // U.S. auto safety regulators said Tuesday they have opened an investigation into 280,000 new Tesla Model 3 and Model Y vehicles over reports of loss of steering control and power steering. The National Highway Traffic...
US Auto Safety Regulators Open Special Probe Into Fatal Tesla Crash
Jul 19 2023 // U.S. auto safety regulators are opening a special crash investigation into a fatal accident in California involving a 2018 Tesla Model 3 suspected of relying on advanced driver assistance systems, the government agency...
Tesla Sues Australia’s Cap-XX Over EV Battery Technology Patents
Jul 18 2023 // Tesla sued Australian company Cap-XX in Texas federal court on Friday, claiming its supercapacitors used for storing energy in electric-vehicle batteries infringe two U.S. patents owned by a Tesla subsidiary. Tesla CEO...
Tesla Directors Pay $735M to Settle Shareholder Lawsuit Over Excess Compensation
Jul 18 2023 // Tesla Inc.’s directors will return $735 million to the company to settle claims they grossly overpaid themselves in one of the largest shareholder settlements of its kind, according to a Monday filing in a Delaware...
NHTSA Seeks Updates From Tesla in Autopilot Probe
Jul 6 2023 // U.S. auto safety regulators said on Thursday they are seeking updated responses and current data for an ongoing probe into 830,000 Tesla vehicles and the automaker’s advanced driver assistance system Autopilot. The...
Black Workers at California Tesla Factory Allege Rampant Racism, Seek Class-Action Status
Jun 8 2023 // Tesla may face a class-action lawsuit after 240 Black factory workers in California described rampant racism and discrimination at the electric automaker’s San Francisco Bay Area plant, including frequent use of...
Tesla’s $2.6 Billion SolarCity Buyout Ruled Fair as Dismissal of Shareholder Suit Upheld
Jun 7 2023 // esla Inc.’s $2.6 billion acquisition of SolarCity in 2016 was “entirely fair” to shareholders, Delaware’s top court ruled, upholding the dismissal of an investor lawsuit and sparing Elon Musk from a...
Lawsuit Claiming Racism at Tesla Draws Almost 240 Black Workers Saying ‘Me Too’
Jun 6 2023 // A Black former assembly line staffer at Tesla Inc. is moving to add hundreds of other workers to his 2017 lawsuit in which he called the electric-car maker’s production floor a “hotbed for racist...
