{"id":13844,"date":"2022-09-03T14:51:12","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T14:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/09\/03\/judge-agrees-musks-buddy-david-sacks-is-fighting-a-subpoena-for-podcast-clout\/"},"modified":"2022-09-03T14:51:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T14:51:12","slug":"judge-agrees-musks-buddy-david-sacks-is-fighting-a-subpoena-for-podcast-clout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/09\/03\/judge-agrees-musks-buddy-david-sacks-is-fighting-a-subpoena-for-podcast-clout\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge agrees Musk\u2019s buddy David Sacks is fighting a subpoena for podcast clout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/9\/2\/23334338\/elon-musk-twitter-david-sacks-subpoena-all-in-podcast\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/9\/2\/23334338\/elon-musk-twitter-david-sacks-subpoena-all-in-podcast<\/a><br \/>\n<code><br \/><\/br><\/code><\/p>\n<div readability=\"78.244897959184\">\n<p id=\"yEO14L\">Twitter\u2019s lawyers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/9\/1\/23331732\/elon-musk-twitter-david-sacks-paypal-mafia-subpoenas-clout\">argued<\/a> David Sacks\u2019 main reason for trying to fight a subpoena filed in their case against Elon Musk is because he said he would on a podcast, and in a ruling issued Friday, the judge agreed. <\/p>\n<p id=\"BTXpC7\"><strong>Chancellor Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick (<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/22274303-letter-decision-resolving-the-joint-motion-of-craft-ventures-man?responsive=0&#038;title=1&#038;onlyshoworg=1\"><strong>pdf<\/strong><\/a><strong>):<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"9\">\n<p id=\"amd9AU\">In an apparent effort to keep Sacks\u2019s promise to his podcast listeners, the movants created the very burden of which they now complain.<\/p>\n<p id=\"COvcLw\">The Motion to Quash is denied.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"c-float-right\">\n<aside id=\"fxnTRy\"><q>the subpoena recipient Tweets the subpoenaing attorneys the middle finger<\/q><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"3zPKsN\">This closes a side story to the main event of Twitter suing Elon Musk over his attempt to get out of their $44 billion acquisition agreement after the company\u2019s lawyers subpoenaed Sacks as \u201ca potential investor in the merger Musk seeks to escape.\u201d Sacks is a venture capitalist and, along with Musk, is a member of the so-called \u201cPayPal Mafia\u201d comprised of the company\u2019s former power players.<\/p>\n<p id=\"OV1SkR\">As Elizabeth Lopatto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/9\/1\/23331732\/elon-musk-twitter-david-sacks-paypal-mafia-subpoenas-clout\">explained earlier this week<\/a>, Sacks reacted to the subpoena <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jlK5tsUuEP0\">during an episode of his All-In podcast<\/a>, saying, \u201cI have no involvement in this thing, but they sent me the broadest ever subpoena. It\u2019s like, 30 pages of requests. And now I gotta hire a lawyer to go quash this thing.\u201d <\/p>\n<p id=\"mjrS4f\">What happened next was described by Twitter\u2019s lawyers in their motion to oppose the request: \u201cThat evening, he Tweeted a virtual middle-finger at \u201cTwitter\u2019s lawyers,\u201d then a video of a man urinating on a subpoena while yelling expletives to a cheering crowd.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"m4Ni5p\">While that strategy may work if you want a bit of internet clout, it did not help his case. Twitter\u2019s lawyers filed additional subpoenas covering Delaware and California, and lawyers representing Sacks based their motion to quash on an argument that this move added to an undue burden placed on him. <\/p>\n<p id=\"ziSHBH\">Judge McCormick decided Twitter had \u201cvalid concerns\u201d based on Sacks\u2019 own actions and refused his request. \u201cIn other circumstances, I might view entirely duplicative subpoenas served for such tactical purposes as problematic. Where, as here, the subpoena recipient Tweets the subpoenaing attorneys the middle finger and a video of someone urinating on subpoenas, I am less bothered by it,\u201d writes McCormick.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><code><br \/><\/br><\/code><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/9\/2\/23334338\/elon-musk-twitter-david-sacks-subpoena-all-in-podcast\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/9\/2\/23334338\/elon-musk-twitter-david-sacks-subpoena-all-in-podcast<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Twitter\u2019s lawyers argued David Sacks\u2019 main reason for trying to fight a subpoena filed in their case against Elon Musk is because he said he would on a podcast, and in a ruling issued Friday, the judge agreed. Chancellor Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick (pdf): In an apparent effort to keep Sacks\u2019s promise to his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13845,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,8],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-13844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech","category-technology","tag-tech"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Judge agrees Musk\u2019s buddy David Sacks is fighting a subpoena for podcast clout - Science and Nerds<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/09\/03\/judge-agrees-musks-buddy-david-sacks-is-fighting-a-subpoena-for-podcast-clout\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Judge agrees Musk\u2019s buddy David Sacks is fighting a subpoena for podcast clout - Science and Nerds\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Source: Twitter\u2019s lawyers argued David Sacks\u2019 main reason for trying to fight a subpoena filed in their case against Elon Musk is because he said he would on a podcast, and in a ruling issued Friday, the judge agreed. 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