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Mar. 29, 2023

Tensions run high in first day of testimony in Tesla race harassment trial

All three witnesses testified that use of the n-word and its Spanish equivalent was pervasive throughout the Tesla factory.

Tensions ran high as the first witnesses took the stand Tuesday in a retrial of the damages phase of a workplace race discrimination case against Tesla Inc.

The parties continued to joust over how pervasive racial harassment was in Tesla’s Fremont factory and about the appropriateness of the company’s response to complaints. Alexander B. Spiro, the Quinn Emanuel lawyer Elon Musk brought in to do the retrial, als...

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