The San Francisco federal judge overseeing a case brought on behalf of Tesla Inc. factory workers who accuse the company of harboring a “Jim Crow era” work environment on the floor of its Fremont production plant all but conceded that there was no possibility of the case going to trial as scheduled in June.

U.S. District Judge William Orrick III of the Northern District of California, however, stopped short of vacating the June 8 trial date in the case during a hearing Monday morning, saying that he wanted to keep the trial on his calendar in the “one-tenth of 1%” chance that it might move forward as planned.

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