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Elon Musk wants his trial moved from California to Texas
Tesla-Chef Elon Musk.
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Washington. US billionaire Elon Musk wants a trial brought against him by shareholders from California to Texas. His attorney, Alex Spiro, in a motion filed in San Francisco Friday night, argued that negative publicity since his takeover of Twitter may have turned potential jurors against him. He pointed out that Twitter had laid off around 1,000 employees in San Francisco and that Musk had been held personally responsible for this in the local media.
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The shareholder lawsuit follows Musk’s 2018 tweet saying he could fund the privatization of his automaker Tesla at $420 a share. That brought the Tesla course into turbulence at the time. Last spring, a judge ruled that Musk’s tweets were false and inconsiderate.
The trial is scheduled to begin in San Francisco on January 17th. Musk wants a transfer to a federal court in Texas that also has jurisdiction over Austin, where he moved Tesla in late 2021. If a transfer is not possible, his lawyers are pleading for the process to be postponed until Twitter is out of the negative headlines.
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