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Elon Musk is a South-African born Canadian-American engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur, born in 1971. He was a co-founder of PayPal, which was sold to Ebay for $1.5 billion. He then founded Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and Tesla Motors. He is chief executive and chief designer at SpaceX and CEO and head of product design at Tesla and chairman of Solar City. Musk purchased Twitter in September 2022.

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15 Nov, 2024

‘Musk rigged dogecoin’ lawsuit ends

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Dogecoin investors who said Musk and Tesla committed fraud and insider trading (Gorog et al v. Musk) file in federal court in Manhattan to withdraw heir appeal of the Aug 29 dismissal of their case, as well as withdrawing a bid to sanction Musk’s lawyers for allegedly interfering with the appeal.
Musk and Tesla also withdraw their motion to sanction the investors’ lawyer for allegedly pursuing a “frivolous” case with ever-changing legal theories to “extort a quick handout.” Both motions requires approval by U.S. District Judge Hellerstein.

Musk adds Microsoft, Hoffman, to OpenAI lawsuit

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Musk files an amendment to a lawsuit filed in a California court in August, adding Microsoft and Hoffman, the founder of LinkedIn, to the complaint of operating a monopoly. OpenAI:

[Mr Musk’s refreshed complaint is] baseless. Elon’s third attempt in less than a year to reframe his claims is even more baseless and overreaching than the previous ones.

6 Oct, 2022

Twitter wants deal closed before trial date

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Musk’s attorneys formally ask a judge to stay the trial, which is set to start Oct. 17. The Musk team say a close would be possible on or around Oct. 28. However, Twitter says Musk must close the deal before proceedings start on the 17th. Twitter;

At a minimum…Defendants should be arranging to close on Monday, October 10. But they aren’t. Instead, they refuse to commit to any closing date. They ask for an open ended out, at the expense of Twitter’s stockholders (who are owed $44 billion plus interest), all the while remaining free to change their minds again or to invent new grounds to avoid the contract. Until Defendants commit to close as required, Twitter is entitled to its day in Court….Defendants can and should close next week. Until they do, this action is not moot [as Musk’s motion insisted] and should be brought to trial.

Musk’s lawyers:

Twitter will not take yes for an answer. Astonishingly, they have insisted on proceeding with this litigation, recklessly putting the deal at risk and gambling with their stockholders’ interests.