In re Tesla Inc. Securities Litigation

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 IN RE TESLA, INC. SECURITIES Case No. 18-cv-04865-EMC

LITIGATION

SUPPLEMENTAL DAUBERT ORDER

AND ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S

EMERGENCY MOTION IN LIMINE

RE OPTION DAMAGES Docket Nos. 508, 611

12 13 In this securities class action, Plaintiff Glen Littleton retained Professor Steven Heston to set out a methodology to calculate options damages. Plaintiff’s stock options methodology has been the source of repeated Daubert motions and motions in limine. See Docket Nos. 479, 553. Most recently, Plaintiff filed an emergency motion in limine contending that judicial estoppel barred Defendants from presenting argument or evidence regarding Plaintiff’s original damages methodology. See Docket No. 611 (Plaintiff’s Emergency Motion in Limine Re: Option Damages, or “Mot.”). Below the Court issues two rulings connected to Plaintiff’s options damages methodology. First, for the reasons set forth…