Tesla Fails to Get Judge Recusal in Brake Defect Case (Correct)

A federal judge rejected Tesla Inc.'s request that he recuse himself from a case centered on alleged brake defects because the judge previously worked at a law firm that represented employees in suits against the company.

Reasonable people understand “that a law firm’s representation of a particular client does not impute everlasting partiality as to all parties adverse to that client,” Judge P. Casey Pitts of the US District Court for the Northern District of California said Tuesday. Pitts also denied Tesla’s request to transfer the case to Maryland and apply Maryland law.

Plaintiff Sylvia Jackson sued Tesla after a ...