This week in Elon: Elon’s Twitter trial pregame heats up - The Verge

Twitter filed subpoenas in its ongoing acquisition lawsuit against billionaire Elon Musk, while Musk countersued in the Chancery Court of Delaware.

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This Week In Elon, we’re talking about M&A again — but this time, we mean mergers and acquisitions — not marriages and affairs.

The Delaware Court of Chancery handed Elon Musk an unfavorably speedy schedule last month in his ongoing fight to not buy Twitter, and now we’ve got specific dates for the trial: Elon and Twitter will square off from October 17th to October 21st. That leaves two and a half months for both parties to fight over what evidence they’ll get to introduce, and Twitter has already started digging — while Musk has been preparing a counterstrike with whatever dirt he’s already got.

As The Washington Post and the newsletter The Chancery Daily reported earlier this week, Twitter has cast a broad net of subpoenas over Musk’s business dealings. It’s requested info from high-profile deal participants like Marc Andreessen as well as longtime Musk friends like the organizers of the All-In Summit, where Musk spoke extensively about Twitter’s alleged bot problems just after he unilaterally declared the deal on hold.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/5/23293415/elon-musk-twitter-lawsuit-subpoenas-countersuit

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