FCPA Compliance Report - Karen Woody on Elon Musk Attack on SEC Consent Decree
Compliance Into The Weeds - Elon Musk and Tesla Redux
Top Five Corporate Scandals of 2018: Episode IV-Tesla and its Elon Problem
This Week in FCPA-Episode 129, week ending November 16, 2018 - the Farewell to Stan Lee edition
Vehicles are more complex now, than ever, offering incredible and exciting technology, including self-driving features. But as innovation continues to rapidly change the automotive industry, can we expect the same innovation...more
The automotive industry is fundamental to Mexico’s development and key to its economic growth. To understand the importance of the automotive industry in Mexico, below are some representative figures: Largest source of...more
Electric vehicles are a hot topic in the auto industry, despite representing a relatively small segment of the current market. As the sales numbers for 2022 continue to take shape, it is clear that 2022 is representing a...more
Your car is spying on you, and you may have invited others to spy on you in the car too. We have long known that connected devices have the capabilities of tracking our movements and behavior to send to unknown data...more
The German Federal Environment Agency (UBA) intends to fine Tesla in Germany millions of euros. The reason for this is Tesla’s apparent failure to comply with the applicable regulations on taking back and recycling batteries....more
Zusammenfassung des Gutenachtens über die Datenverarbeitung und den Datenschutz bei Tesla Fahrzeugen vom 19.10.2020 - „Tesla-Fahrzeuge sind dauernd aktive Datenschleudern mit Langzeitgedächtnis.“ (Weichert, Gutachten über...more
Summary of expert opinion on data processing and data protection in Tesla vehicles of 19 October 2020 - “Teslas continuously gush data and have a long memory” (translation of Weichert, Gutachten über Datenverarbeitung und...more
In its judgment of 14 July 2020 (case no. 33 O 14041/19), Munich’s regional court I (Landgericht München I) ruled that advertising claims made by Tesla in Germany amounted to misleading commercial practices under the...more
Seyfarth's Future of Automotive Series - On March 23, 2020, Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed into law S.B. 20-167, which amends that state’s dealer statute to allow some electric vehicle manufacturers to own, operate,...more
The following table lists the top 25 well-funded autonomous vehicle companies according to CrunchBase. Based on a search of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s publicly available information, the top 25 autonomous vehicle...more
Seyfarth's Future of Automotive Series - After three years of litigation, two appeals to the Sixth Circuit, and with a February 4, 2020 trial date looming, electric automobile manufacturer Tesla and the State of Michigan,...more
Facebook wages a war on misinformation. On Monday, Facebook announced it will start removing videos altered by artificial intelligence that are likely to mislead people into thinking that a subject of the video made...more
Amgen will pay $13.4 billion in cash to buy psoriasis treatment Otezla, a deal that will “pave the way for Bristol-Myers Squibb to complete its acquisition of Celgene” by addressing “regulatory concerns over their union”....more
A fatal crash involving a Tesla equipped with an autonomous-driving system has prompted not only a wrongful-death lawsuit by the family of the driver but also a federal probe into the vehicle maker’s much-scrutinized...more
In the competition amongst automobile manufacturers to knock autonomous driving out-of-the-park, Cadillac is next up to the plate. Recently – rolling-out its newest autonomous driving technology – General Motors (“GM”)...more
As we anticipated, the Fed held pat on rates yesterday, acknowledged rising inflation but betrayed little concern about it, and gave no signs of moving away from plans to next raise rates in June....more
The first known death caused by a vehicle being operated in autopilot mode was reported by automaker Tesla Motors last month. This seriously highlights the potential shortcomings of vehicles that operate without human input....more