December 01, 2020
A former Tesla employee who leaked confidential information about the electric automaker's alleged production problems has agreed to pay $400,000 to settle Tesla's "saboteur" lawsuit in Nevada federal court, closing out a contentious case involving mudslinging on both sides.
October 08, 2020
A former Tesla employee accused of stealing company trade secrets sent emails to Elon Musk threatening physical violence and harassed Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP attorneys, the electric car giant told a Nevada federal judge Thursday.
September 18, 2020
A Nevada federal judge said Thursday that a former Tesla employee improperly leaked confidential information to the media and Tesla's statements labeling him a "saboteur" weren't defamatory, but rejected the electric automaker's claim that the employee's actions triggered a $168 million hit to its stock.
August 11, 2020
Tesla on Monday urged a Nevada federal court to sanction a former employee accused of stealing and leaking confidential information, claiming in an emergency motion that he has now shared his case file containing thousands of confidential documents on Twitter and posted "rambling YouTube videos mocking his own lawyers."
June 10, 2020
Tesla and an ex-employee it has accused of stealing and leaking confidential information to the media sparred Tuesday over whether the automaker exaggerated its $168 million damages claim and maligned the employee by labeling him a "saboteur."
April 01, 2020
Tesla and an ex-employee it has accused of stealing trade secrets and siphoning them to third parties duked it out over whether the automaker's claims for $168 million in damages or the employee's counterclaims for defamation and invasion of privacy should survive.
August 29, 2019
An ex-employee accused of stealing Tesla trade secrets and siphoning them to third parties had secretly leaked information on Tesla's Model 3 production woes to the media, triggering a multimillion-dollar dive in Tesla's market capitalization, the electric automaker claimed in a court filing.
July 31, 2018
The former Tesla employee accused of stealing confidential company data and trade secrets and siphoning them to third parties countersued the automaker for defamation and invasion of privacy on Tuesday, claiming he's been falsely labeled a saboteur and is owed at least $1 million in damages.
June 26, 2018
Tesla Inc. on Monday won a Nevada federal judge's approval to subpoena Apple Inc., Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. to preserve email and cloud storage content belonging to a former process technician the automaker has accused of stealing confidential company data and trade secrets and siphoning them to third parties.