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Labor/Employment

Apr. 11, 2017

SpaceX launches whistleblower defense with Hermle

The Mars colonization company is girded for battle with defense lawyer Lynne C. Hermle and a refusal to have Elon Musk deposed.

By Matthew Blake
Daily Journal Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES ? "Things have changed since last week, your honor," Space Exploration Technologies Corp. lawyer Summer Wynn, partner at Cooley LLP, told Los Angeles County Judge William F. Fahey on Monday.

What changed is that SpaceX added Lynne C. Hermle, parter at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, to fight plaintiff Jason Bladsell's charge that the Hawthorne-based company fired Bladsell for blowi...

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