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Civil Litigation

May 13, 2019

Elon Musk must stand trial for calling diver ‘pedo guy’

Calling a marine who helped rescue a team of trapped Thai cave divers in 2018 “pedo guy” isn’t the kind of harmless insult Elon Musk could write off, a federal judge said Friday.

Elon Musk must stand trial for calling diver ‘pedo guy’
Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk, center, flanked by attorneys Moez M. Kaba, left, and John Hueston of Hueston Hennigan LLP, right, arrive in April at a federal courthouse in New York.

Calling a marine who helped rescue a team of trapped Thai cave divers in 2018 "pedo guy" isn't the kind of harmless insult Elon Musk could write off, a federal judge said Friday.

Setting a trial date for October, U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson denied Musk's request to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Vernon Unsworth, who Musk accused repeatedly of pedophilia in the midst of ...

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