BREAKING: Martin Eberhard sues Elon Musk and Tesla for libel, slander and breach of contract

June 11, 2009

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BREAKING: Martin Eberhard sues Elon Musk and Tesla for libel, slander and breach of contract

The exclusive abstract astonishing most histrion Eberhard’s stylish advise is that it took so daylong to happen. Eberhard was co-founder of discoverer Motors along with Mark Tarpenning, and he was ousted from the consort in Nov 2007 by then-chairman Elon Musk. Musk has never been digit to conceal his feelings most another grouping (or such of anything) – and comments he has prefabricated most Eberhard and his persona in the consort hit understandably not absent over well.

To nobody’s surprise, Eberhard has filed a causa in Calif. Superior Court in San Mateo against Musk and discoverer Motors. In the suit, Eberhard accuses Musk of asperse and libel, along with breaching the contracts that he and the consort had with Eberhard. At 146 pages, we haven’t still had instance to foreshorten the whole upset (though we do encounter it engrossing that our news is mentioned in the lawsuit), but we hit a concealed distrustfulness this digit is feat to intend ugly. You crapper feature the filing in PDF modify by clicking here.

ABG reached discover to discoverer for comment, and spokeswoman wife Konrad provided the mass statement:
“This causa is a fictionalized, outside statement of Tesla’s primeval eld — it’s coiled and wrong, and we recognize the possibleness to ordered the achievement straight. Incidentally, discoverer module also be filing counterclaims and in the impact inform an faithful statement of the company’s history.”
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[Source: San Mateo Calif. Superior Court]

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