A court has opened the path for yet another serious lawsuit against Tesla, based on allegations of antitrust violations.

U.S. District Judge Trina Thompson in San Francisco ruled on Monday that owners could try to prove that Tesla coerced them into paying high prices and suffering long waits to have their vehicles fixed, under fear of losing warranty coverage.
Owners said Tesla’s alleged coercion violated the federal Sherman antitrust law and California antitrust law.
Thompson found evidence of a repairs monopoly in Tesla’s alleged refusal to open enough authorized service centers, and its designing vehicles to require diagnostic and software updates that only the company could provide.

Tesla presumably thought they were above the law, as they intentionally setup a service model to flagrantly violate the customer right to repair.