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Tesla safety at center of South Korean trial over fiery, fatal crash
SEOUL, Nov 21 (Reuters) – In an upscale Seoul neighborhood two years ago, a white Tesla Model X smashed into a parking lot wall. The fiery crash killed a prominent lawyer – a close friend of South Korea’s president. Prosecutors have charged the driver with involuntary manslaughter. He blames Tesla. Choi Woan-jong, who had kept out a living by driving drunk people home in their own car, says the Model X sped out of control on its own and that the brakes failed in the December 2020 accident. The criminal trial about to begin in South Korea hangs on questions about the safety of Tesla cars, at a time when…
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Tesla countersues California agency behind race bias lawsuit
Wedbush Securities controlling director Dan Ives reacts to Mercedes-Benz teaming up with Rivian to provide electrical professional vans to Europe on ‘The Claman Countdown.’ Tesla Inc on Thursday countersued the California company that has accused the electric carmaker of tolerating prevalent race discrimination at its flagship assembly plant. Tesla in a complaint submitted in state court in Alameda County stated the California Civil Legal rights Division (CRD), which sued the enterprise in February, adopted “underground restrictions” permitting it to file the lawsuit devoid of initial notifying Tesla of the statements or providing the enterprise a prospect to settle. Tesla’s counter-lawsuit alleges that the CRD violated point out law by not…
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Tesla Law Department Exits Leave Musk With Thinned Legal Bench
Tesla Inc.‘s parting with yet another law office chief leaves Elon Musk, its co-founder and top rated government, with a thinned authorized bench as he faces authorized challenges. At least a dozen firm lawyers have still left their posts this yr, according to 3 people familiar with Tesla’s functions. They include things like some attorneys who labored in company models exterior of authorized, including human methods and tax, the individuals mentioned. The firm has no lawyer or legal chief shown amid its a few top executives and has been without having a permanent general counsel given that December 2019. “The GC needs to be a direct report to the CEO…
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