Almost six months after offering to buy Twitter for $44 billion, Elon Musk will be in court. The businessman, who was only passionate about his new conquest for a few weeks, decided on July 8, 2022 to give it up, supposedly because Twitter is lying about the number of fake accounts registered on the platform. . An argument he tried to use to postpone his lawsuit with Twitter to 2023 (the social network filed a complaint against him), but which did not work. The Court of Justice of Delaware, the State where the lawsuit will be held, considers that the question of the false accounts has nothing to do with this case.
Meanwhile, Twitter and Elon Musk have managed to agree on one element: the start date of the trial. The Delaware Court of Justice has decided to schedule the first hearing on October 17, and the last on October 21 (this is an express trial). The Verge was able to source the full schedule, with all of the scheduled deadlines.
The most publicized trial of 2022?
In the document published by Judge Kathaleen McCormick, we discover many deadlines for Twitter lawyers and Elon Musk. In August, September and October, they will have to provide the Court of Justice with the list of witnesses they wish to have questioned, the documents to be examined and the content of their interventions. On October 14, a pre-trial conference is scheduled, before the official start on the 17th.
Given the media coverage of Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, this event should attract journalists from around the world in October, all curious to know the outcome of this case full of twists and turns. Will Elon Musk be forced to buy Twitter? Will he have to pay him huge compensation? Can he still get out? We imagine that what will be said during the hearing will be analyzed by thousands of commentators around the world.
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