{"id":13958,"date":"2022-09-07T15:10:23","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T15:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/09\/07\/judge-denies-elon-musks-attempt-to-delay-twitter-trial\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:10:25","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T15:10:25","slug":"judge-denies-elon-musks-attempt-to-delay-twitter-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/09\/07\/judge-denies-elon-musks-attempt-to-delay-twitter-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge denies Elon Musk\u2019s attempt to delay Twitter trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/9\/7\/23339673\/musk-twitter-trial-delay-request-denied-whistleblower-claims-granted\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/9\/7\/23339673\/musk-twitter-trial-delay-request-denied-whistleblower-claims-granted<\/a><br \/>\n<code><br \/><\/br><\/code><\/p>\n<div readability=\"75.096837944664\">\n<p id=\"UhKQbj\">A Delaware court has denied billionaire Elon Musk\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/8\/30\/23329134\/elon-musk-twitter-lawsuit-delay-whistleblower-testimony\">attempt<\/a> to push back the October trial over his abortive Twitter acquisition, but it agrees that he can incorporate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/8\/23\/23317857\/twitter-whistleblower-zatko-security-spam-safety\">claims made by former Twitter security chief Peiter \u201cMudge\u201d Zatko<\/a> into his case.<\/p>\n<p id=\"0ypwvN\">The decision follows a hearing yesterday afternoon that saw Musk\u2019s attorneys argue for a \u201cmeager\u201d few weeks to review new information before the trial\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/7\/29\/23283577\/elon-musk-twitter-lawsuit-trial-start-date-delaware\">October 17th start date<\/a>. Twitter, meanwhile, accused Musk of trying to drag out the trial and \u201csow chaos\u201d with more document requests \u2014 claiming at one point that its lawyers had been forced to pause responding to international law enforcement requests.<\/p>\n<p id=\"I6dlXF\">Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick said that Musk should be granted wide latitude to amend claims before the trial starts, overruling Twitter\u2019s objections, although she said she was \u201creticent to say more concerning the merits of the counterclaims\u201d before the litigation. Musk and Twitter will negotiate on \u201climited\u201d discovery of new documents related to Zatko\u2019s allegations, which include a variety of claims about poor management at Twitter as well as assertions that executives lied about the number of bots on the platform. In a statement, Musk attorney Alex Spiro lauded the decision. \u201cWe are hopeful that winning the motion to amend takes us one step closer to the truth coming out in that courtroom,\u201d said Spiro.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-float-right\">\n<aside id=\"fbBP4f\"><q>\u201cThe company has been forced for months to manage under the constrains of a repudiated merger agreement\u201d<\/q><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"IPKNjr\">However, McCormick said that Twitter would be unduly harmed by a delay in the trial \u2014 which Musk had initially pushed to schedule next year. \u201cThe company has been forced for months to manage under the constrains of a repudiated merger agreement,\u201d wrote McCormick. \u201cI am convinced that even four weeks\u2019 delay would risk further harm to Twitter too great to justify.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"W9Av3e\">The ruling is consistent with McCormick\u2019s earlier push for a fast trial, but the decision to allow the whistleblower\u2019s claims strengthens Musk\u2019s case \u2014 albeit in ways that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/8\/25\/23321477\/elon-musk-twitter-mudge-zatko-leaks-court-effects\">aren\u2019t necessarily fatal<\/a> to Twitter. Musk initially said he suspended the deal because he\u2019d discovered a far larger number of bots on the platform than he expected, but at the trial, he\u2019s likely to argue that Twitter concealed \u201cmaterial adverse effects\u201d potentially beyond the scope of bots, thanks to Zatko\u2019s disclosures.<\/p>\n<p id=\"n5wlyF\">Meanwhile, Twitter has subpoenaed a wide range of Musk allies and argued that Musk got cold feet that have nothing to do with bots. At the hearing, it <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kateconger\/status\/1567243937303384064\">pointed to a text message<\/a> urging his banker to \u201cslow down\u201d the deal for a few days while evaluating a speech by Russian President Vladimir Putin. \u201cIt won\u2019t make sense to buy Twitter if we\u2019re heading into World War 3,\u201d Musk said. The two sides will likely continue arguing over exactly what information they\u2019ll need to hand over \u2014 but thanks to today\u2019s decision, we won\u2019t be waiting long to see it.<\/p>\n<p id=\"uneB0R\"><em><strong>Update 10:45AM ET: <\/strong><\/em><em>Added statement from Musk\u2019s attorney.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><code><br \/><\/br><\/code><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/9\/7\/23339673\/musk-twitter-trial-delay-request-denied-whistleblower-claims-granted\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/9\/7\/23339673\/musk-twitter-trial-delay-request-denied-whistleblower-claims-granted<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: A Delaware court has denied billionaire Elon Musk\u2019s attempt to push back the October trial over his abortive Twitter acquisition, but it agrees that he can incorporate claims made by former Twitter security chief Peiter \u201cMudge\u201d Zatko into his case. The decision follows a hearing yesterday afternoon that saw Musk\u2019s attorneys argue for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13959,"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":[126,8],"tags":[127],"class_list":["post-13958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-technology","tag-elon-musk"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Judge denies Elon Musk\u2019s attempt to delay Twitter trial - 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\/07\/judge-denies-elon-musks-attempt-to-delay-twitter-trial\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Judge denies Elon Musk\u2019s attempt to delay Twitter trial - Science and Nerds\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Source: A Delaware court has denied billionaire Elon Musk\u2019s attempt to push back the October trial over his abortive Twitter acquisition, but it agrees that he can incorporate claims made by former Twitter security chief Peiter \u201cMudge\u201d Zatko into his case. 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