Tesla whistleblower wins legal battle against Elon Musk

Tesla Whistleblower, which fought Elon Musk and its company via the courts for years in the last round of a long -term legal battle.

Engineer Christina Balin lost her function after she raised safety in 2014 about a drawing defect that could affect braking for cars.

It seems that the demand for its defamation against the company has run out of the road when the judge confirmed the arbitration decision that rejects its case – but a committee of the appeals judges in California This decision was reflected in her favor.

She told BBC News that she now wants to face Elon Musk and Tesla in the open court.

Tesla did not respond to the comment.

Mrs. Baln said she believes the case will now return to the first box, and new procedures can be launched.

She said: “We hope to start a new lawsuit and we will have the opportunity to take over Elon Musk in front of a jury and two judges.”

One day the engineer was so prominent in Tesla that the first letters of the letters were engraved on the batteries inside the style vehicles.

In an interview with BBC News last year, She said she was determined to prove her innocence for her son.

She also revealed that she was in a remission of breast cancer in the 3B stage, and her biggest concern was that she might not live to see her last day in court.

Mrs. Baln claimed that she was concerned that carpets were a curl under some pedals in Tesla, which creates the threat of safety.

She said that the managers rejected her fears, became hostile, and lost her job.

Then she won the case of unlawful dismissal – but it turned out that this is the beginning of a long journey through the courts.

Mrs. Balan was publicly accused by Tesla using her resources for a “secret project” – accusations that reach her embezzlement, a crime under American law.

I have been accused and decided to file a defamation case against the company in 2019.

“I want to wipe my name,” she told BBC News last year.

“I hope Illon Musk will have decency to apologize.”

Then the court decided that the case of Mrs. Balan must be subject to arbitration for every contract that signed during the work of Tesla.

The tight existing in favor of the company and musk, and rejecting its allegations, due to the law of restrictions in California – this means that a lot of time has passed since it made alleged definition data.

Tesla re -the case to a local court in California to confirm the decision.

However, Mrs. Palin appealed this decision, and judges from the American Appeal Court of the ninth circle, which she found in her favor – in fact that it was decided that the California Court had no jurisdiction in issuing her ruling.

They ordered the cancellation of the arbitration award, and the provincial court must refuse the procedure for its lack of competence.