Elon Musk has filed a new motion last week that aims on blocking Twitter‘s attempts at a fast track trial. This trial follows after the social media platform sued the billionaire for terminating the 44 billion US Dollar deal.
The Tesla CEO’s lawyers have filed papers with the Delaware Chancery Court. These documents stated that Twitter has made an “unjustifiable request” for an expedited trial after it turned a rushed merger into a trial in just two months. For those unaware, Elon Musk pulled out of the multi billion dollar merger deal after he claimed that Twitter lied about the “spam bot” issue as well as failed to provide accurate data regarding this matter.
Following this move from Musk, the popular microblogging website filed a lawsuit claiming that Elon violated the deal for the acquisition. Thus, the social media giant is now requesting the trial to begin in September since the merger agreement is set to terminate officially on October 25. In the filing, Musk stated that “Twitter’s sudden request for warp speed after two months of foot dragging and obfuscation is its latest tactic to shroud the truth about spam accounts long enough to railroad defendants into closing.”
According to a Reuters report, “Musk’s lawyers argued the dispute over false and spam accounts is fundamental to Twitter’s value and extremely fact- and expert-intensive.” Furthermore, they have also claimed that it would also take a long while for discovery and requested that the trial take place sometime around or after February 13 of next year.
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