Tesla Steals Activision Playbook in Fighting Race-Bias Suit (1)

A turf war between federal and California workplace civil rights agencies, who ran dueling discrimination probes into Activision Blizzard Inc. and Tesla Inc., is giving companies a playbook for creating regulatory chaos and fighting back against agency actions.

Legal observers say Tesla, which disclosed it was the subject of parallel investigations over racial discrimination by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing, is already taking a page from the tactics of Activision, which pushed back on the state agency before finalizing a sexual harassment settlement with the EEOC over the objections ...