Allegations In Tesla Model 3 Trade Secrets Suit Against Former Employee Trimmed

Mealey's (September 22, 2020, 1:12 PM EDT) -- RENO, Nev. — Although a former Tesla Inc. employee has sufficiently shown that his alleged theft of company trade secrets pertaining to the company's Model 3 automobile and subsequent release of that information to a reporter could not have caused the declines in Tesla's stock price to which its damages expert testified, a federal judge in Nevada on Sept. 17 ruled that she was not persuaded by any of the other arguments proffered by the defendant in his summary judgment motion (Tesla Inc. v. Martin Tripp, No. 18-0296, D. Nev., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 170855)....