Hey everybody, we're on an hour here, and today we're going to be talking about a jury

verdict against Tesla in a discrimination lawsuit.

Then a couple days back, we did get Rivians S1 filing as they prepare for their initial

public offering.

We'll talk about the details included in that filing, and then we've just got a couple

of quick notes on Tesla's debt and Gigaburlin.

Quick look at the stock, kind of the opposite situation of what we had yesterday to open

the week, Tesla today actually finishing down, only slightly one tenth of a percent,

to $780.59, but that was in an up macro environment, the S&P Dow, and NASDAQ all finishing

up, the NASDAQ the best of those three, up 1.25%.

So the prominent news around Tesla today is a decision made in a lawsuit brought against

the company by a former contractor of the company, ONDS, who claims that he was subject

to a racially hostile work environment during his time working with Tesla, and because

this was a contractor instead of arbitration, which would be used with an employee this

did end up going all the way to a jury trial, the jury has come to a decision, and has ruled

in favor of the plaintiff DS for $137 million in damages.

A clinical professor of law at Berkeley Law told Bloomberg that, quote, I believe that's

the largest verdict in an individual race discrimination employment case, class actions

are of course in a different category, end quote, obviously without being in the courtroom

we can't really get the full story from both sides, but DS's claims seem to center

around the pervasive use of racially charged language, as well as offensive graffiti, seemingly

targeted at DS, who claims to have questioned at least those drawings to a supervisor and

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