The estate of a man who was killed in 2021 after his Tesla crashed and caught fire has asked a federal judge in San Francisco to sanction the electric vehicle maker over stalled efforts to settle a wrongful death lawsuit. Subscribe to The Daily Docket: https://t.co/qaahBsIStB https://t.co/cNboGq7fXs
Musk's attorney Alex Spiro said that reimbursing the SEC for counsel's duplicative travel expenses is a fair resolution, but SEC attorney Robin Andrews argued that adding a finding that Musk violated a court order to appear is a needed deterrent. https://t.co/ybDZf1OXox
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A federal appeals court panel appeared skeptical regarding Tesla investors' request for a new trial concerning Elon Musk's 2018 tweets, in which he claimed to have 'funding secured' to take the company private. The Ninth Circuit judges indicated that juror confusion was insufficient to justify a retrial of the $12 billion claim. Concurrently, the estate of Charles Leach, who died in a Tesla crash in 2021, is seeking sanctions against the automaker for delays in settling a wrongful death lawsuit, requesting $9,600 in legal fees. Additionally, the SEC is pursuing sanctions against Musk for failing to appear in court as ordered, while former Twitter employees are appealing a ruling that redefined the company's benefit plan to exclude them from federal legal protections regarding severance payments after Musk's acquisition of Twitter.