Elon Musk emerges victorious in fight to reopen Tesla factory

[Yoni Heisler]

• After a tense stand-off, Tesla will be allowed to reopen its manufacturing plant in California next week.
• The approval comes after Tesla sued Alameda County for refusing to let it resume operations at its Fremont factory.
• In a viral tweet sent out this week, Musk initially volunteered to be arrested if authorities decided to enforce the state's stay-at-home order.
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Even by Tesla's standards, the saga involving Elon Musk's battle to reopen the company's manufacturing plant in Fremont, California has been nothing short of bizarre. Tesla, if you recall, sued Alameda County over the weekend for not letting it resume business operations and reopen its Fremont factory.

The lawsuit, as you might expect, was accompanied by a tweet from Musk wherein the Tesla CEO blasted the Alameda Health Officer as "ignorant" and for acting "contrary to the Governor, the President, our Constitutional freedoms & just plain common sense!”

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