Is There a Class Action Lawsuit Against Tesla in 2026?
Updated August 11, 2026 · By Class Action Buddy
Short answer: the consumer cases on the record are closed — five of the six matching Tesla’s name terminated between October 2020 and June 2025 — and the only one still open is a stockholders’ suit filed in Texas in August 2025. Nothing here is a route to a refund on a car.
What to do: do not read a stockholders’ suit as a consumer claim, and check the termination date before believing any case is live: five of these six are already closed. If a vehicle settlement ever opens it will be administered on VIN and service history, so those are the records worth keeping.
The short answer: the consumer cases on the record are closed, and the one still open belongs to shareholders
Searching the federal docket for class actions naming Tesla returns six. Five of them are closed, terminated between October 2020 and June 2025. The one with no termination date is a stockholders’ suit, filed in Texas in August 2025.
Correction, 11 August 2026. That sweep missed one. Reading the federal docket directly turned up Waller v. Tesla, Inc., No. 3:26-cv-05350 in the Northern District of California, filed on 4 June 2026 and live — a breach-of-contract class action naming Tesla, Inc. alongside Tesla Lease Trust and Tesla Finance LLC. It is not a stockholders’ suit. Nothing is claimable from it, and we have set out what the record does and does not show in Waller v. Tesla.
So the answer to “how do I join a Tesla class action” is that nothing on this list is a route to a refund on a car. That is not the same as saying no class action against Tesla is live: Waller v. Tesla, Inc. was filed in California on 4 June 2026 and names Tesla’s finance and leasing entities. It has not reached a settlement and there is nothing to claim from it.
What the record actually shows
The closed cases cover most of the ground people ask about, and they cover it in the past tense. Inkie Lee v. Tesla, Inc. was a motor-vehicle product liability case with 24 named parties, terminated in October 2020. Lambrix v. Tesla, Inc. was an antitrust case in the Northern District of California, terminated 9 June 2025. Lamontagne v. Tesla, Inc. was a securities case, terminated 26 November 2024. Butler v. Tesla, Inc. and Amans v. Tesla, Inc. closed in May 2025 and March 2024.
The only one still open is Morand v. Tesla, Inc. in the Western District of Texas, filed 4 August 2025 and docketed as a stockholders’ suit. Tesla reincorporated in Texas, which is why a case against it now appears there rather than in Delaware. A stockholders’ suit is brought over how the company is run; it is not a route to a refund on a car.
What this page used to claim. It listed a “Full Self-Driving false-advertising class action”, an “Autopilot crash MDL” and a “battery-range disclosure class action”, none of them with a case name, a court or a docket number. They have been removed. We are not saying no such case exists — only that none of them appeared in this search, and that an assertion you cannot check is worth nothing to you either way.
Cases on the public record
Each of these was matched on case name in the federal docket on 11 August 2026, and each links to its own record so you can read it yourself. Docket numbers repeat across districts, so a number on its own proves nothing — the case name is what identifies a case.
| Case | What the docket says |
|---|---|
| Morand v. Tesla, Inc. 1:25-cv-01213, W.D. Tex. | Open — and it is a stockholders’ suit. Filed 4 August 2025 in the Western District of Texas. No termination date on file, which means unknown rather than proceeding. Not a consumer claim. |
| Lambrix v. Tesla, Inc. 3:23-cv-01145, N.D. Cal. | Closed. An antitrust case in the Northern District of California with 13 named parties; terminated 9 June 2025. |
| Butler v. Tesla, Inc. 4:23-cv-02321, N.D. Cal. | Closed. Northern District of California, 17 named parties; terminated 1 May 2025. |
| Lamontagne v. Tesla, Inc. 3:23-cv-00869, N.D. Cal. | Closed. A securities case; terminated 26 November 2024. Securities classes cover people who bought the shares. |
| Amans v. Tesla, Inc. 3:21-cv-03577, N.D. Cal. | Closed. A contract case in the Northern District of California; terminated 8 March 2024. |
| Inkie Lee v. Tesla, Inc. 2:20-cv-00570, C.D. Cal. | Closed. A motor-vehicle product liability case with 24 named parties in the Central District of California; terminated 1 October 2020. |
Where the status comes from. These are read from each docket’s own entries, not from a summary elsewhere. Two limits are worth knowing. The public docket mirror does not carry the text of every entry, so where an entry has no description this page says what it can date rather than invent what it said. And a case with no termination date on file is unknown, not open — a blank field is not a finding.
What we removed, and why. An earlier version of this page listed a “Full Self-Driving false-advertising class action”, an “Autopilot crash MDL” and a “battery-range disclosure class action”. Not one carried a case name, a court or a docket number, and none could be matched to a federal docket. They are gone. A claim you cannot check is worth less than no claim at all.
What you can actually do
1. Do not read a stockholders' suit as a consumer claim. Morand is docketed as a stockholders’ suit in Texas. Those cases are about how the company is governed and are brought by shareholders. Owning the car does not put you in one.
2. Check the termination date before believing a case is live. Five of the six cases here are closed, some of them recently. A page that describes a 2023 filing as “ongoing” in 2026 has usually just not looked again.
3. Keep the VIN, the order agreement and every service record. If a vehicle settlement ever opens, it will be administered on VIN and service history. Those are the documents a claims process asks for.
4. Spend the time on something that can actually pay you. There are settlements open right now that need no proof of purchase. Our guide to settlements with no proof of purchase lists the ones currently accepting claims, with their deadlines.
How we checked this page
Verified on 11 August 2026. Cases were found by searching the federal docket for Tesla’s corporate name, then each docket was opened and its entries read for the events that decide a class action — certification, dismissal, settlement approval, remand. A note on the limits of this page. The search matched cases on Tesla’s name and read each docket’s header — case name, court, number, filing date, termination date. The entry-by-entry reading used on our other guides was not available when this page was written, so no ruling is quoted here that we have not read, and the list is what one name search returns rather than every case that exists. We publish what the record shows and say plainly where it stops.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How do I join a Tesla class action lawsuit?
There is nothing on this page to join. Five of the six class actions matching Tesla’s name are closed, and the one still open, Morand v. Tesla, Inc. in the Western District of Texas, is docketed as a stockholders’ suit rather than a consumer case.
Is there a Tesla Full Self-Driving class action?
None appeared in this search, and the version of this page being replaced asserted one with no case name, court or docket number. That is not the same as saying none exists — it means we could not verify it, so we removed it rather than repeat it.
What is the open Tesla case about?
Morand v. Tesla, Inc. was filed on 4 August 2025 in the Western District of Texas and is docketed as a stockholders’ suit. Tesla reincorporated in Texas, which is why such a case is filed there.
Why do so many Tesla cases end without paying anyone?
Because most class actions do. Of the six here, five reached a termination date between October 2020 and June 2025, and none of them produced a claims process listed on this page.
Would a Tesla recall get me money?
No. A recall is a free repair carried out by the manufacturer, usually after a safety regulator gets involved, and there is no claim to file. A settlement is a court-approved resolution of a lawsuit, which is a different thing entirely.
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