🚗 Automotive 2d ago · Fred Lambert

Tesla’s ‘hardcore lawyers’ went a little too hardcore

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Tesla’s ‘hardcore lawyers’ went a little too hardcore
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Tesla’s racism trial in California opened Monday with a bad day for the company’s lawyers. The first witness testified that a senior Tesla in-house attorney had called him last week and let him believe he was working for the state, according to Law360 (paywall).



That same morning, Tesla’s outside counsel told the judge the N-word is a “term of respect and endearment” in the Black community. Both happened in front of Judge Peter Borkon, the one person who will decide the case.



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