Engineer Cristina Balan lost her job after she raised a safety concern in 2014 about a design flaw which could affect the cars’ braking.
Her defamation claim against the firm seemed to have run out of road when a judge confirmed an arbitration decision dismissing her case – but a panel of appeal judges in California has reversed this decision in her favour.
She told BBC News she now wants to face Elon Musk and Tesla in open court.
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The engineer was once so prominent at Tesla that her initials were engraved on the batteries inside Model S vehicles.
