Technology,
Ediscovery,
Civil Litigation
Jun. 17, 2022
Musk’s legal team loses ‘facts aren’t facts on Twitter’ argument
“I’m not familiar with any case that says a court is barred from taking otherwise factual questions away from a jury when it’s so clear that no reasonable jury could find on a different fact,” said U.S. District Judge Edward M. Chen.
Elon Musk lost his attempt Thursday to file an interlocutory appeal to defeat a partial summary judgment motion granted to investors alleging his string of tweets in August 2018 were misleading and caused millions of dollars in injury by spiking trading volume and inflating Tesla’s stock price.
Musk’s legal team, led by Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP partner Kathleen Sullivan, tried to create, “a possible question of first impre...
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