Elon Musk's Trial Set For October, Twitter Prevails In First Judicial Battle

A US court has decided that Twitter's lawsuit against the Tesla billionaire Elon Musk take place in October, as opposed to the original 2023 target date. 

Twitter's case against Elon Musk for trying to back out of his purchase of the company will be heard in October, a Delaware judge determined today.

Twitter argued that Musk's bot claims were bad-faith attempts to back out of the transaction as a result of a severe case of buyer's remorse during oral arguments before the judge, Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick. 

Musk requested a date for February and Twitter originally requested a date for September.

The trial will last five days, which is longer than Twitter requested but shorter than Musk requested. The specific dates are still to be determined.

Twitter's attorney stated in court that Musk's actions were "inexcusable." Musk is "needlessly destroying value" and has stalled a plan to keep employees. In response, Musk's attorneys claimed that Twitter was mistreating Musk by using bot data.

Both teams concurred that Musk's crew has accessed Twitter's firehose, a real-time feed of Tweets as they are sent, millions of times.

Additionally, according to Musk's attorneys, The New York Times received a copy of Twitter's lawsuit before them.

After a ten-minute break, McCormick declared that a delay could cause Twitter irreparable injury.

A court date in October is short notice, but McCormick expressed confidence that the legal teams will rise to the challenge.