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by nimajneb 1024 days ago
My bet is that becomes a scenerio where the party with the most money for lawyers wins. If it was me, I would have almost no money for lawyers.
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Having recently dealt with this very situation. Lawyers are honestly not __that__ expensive for these disputes and NDA’s are largely unenforceable.
How expensive is not that expensive, out of curiosity?
Was it with Tesla? Curious what happened..
>NDA’s are largely unenforceable

source?

Yeah not so sure about that. States will have different laws, and NDAs are not Non-Competes -- different story altogether.

Most states can't / won't enforce Non-Competes, but NDAs often have teeth.

Most states also have warranty and lemon laws, often specifically aimed at cars, so you could fight the NDA or ignore it and push for a warranty violation or lemon law case.

File a lawsuit to get them to lemon law the thing. Court testimony is public record that can’t be NDAd.
That doesn't mean NDAs are unenforceable. It just means you're getting them to fix the problem without signing their NDA, and presumably going through more hassle in the process.
No money for lawyers, before or after you spent $100k on a car?
It's pretty painful to drop thousands on lawyers when you know they have significantly more money and better lawyers

I say this as a person who very much wanted to sue Tesla and backed down on the advice of my lawyer friend -- I was most likely only increasing my net loss and severely stressing myself out

Thank you for confirming one of the many reasons I'd probably never buy a Tesla.

It (and the blue check), just isn't worth it.