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A Tuesday hearing marked the conclusion of the first legal square-off between Elon Musk and Twitter, during which the judge declared a trial date closer to the one Twitter proposed.
Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick of the court of Chancery in Delaware presided over the hearing, ordering that a 5-day trial take place in October 2022.
“The reality is that delay threatens irreparable harm to the sellers,” McCormick said in her ruling, referring to Twitter. “The longer the delay, the greater the risk.”
The court’s Tuesday ruling is the first in the billionaire’s high-profile legal battle with Twitter.