Musk says negative local media coverage of shareholder lawsuit over 2018 Tesla tweet has biased jurors against him
out of San Francisco because he says negative local media coverage has biased potential jurors against him.
. That district includes the state capital of Austin, which is where Musk relocated his electric car company, Tesla, in late 2021.when he said he had sufficient financing to take Tesla private at $420 a share – an announcement that caused heavy volatility in Tesla’s share price.last spring, Judge Edward Chen ruled that Musk’s tweets were false and reckless.
“For the last several months, the local media have saturated this district with biased and negative stories about Mr Musk,” attorney Alex Spiro wrote in a court filing. Those news items have personally blamed Musk for recent layoffs at Twitter, Spiro wrote, and have charged that the job cuts may have even violated laws.
“The northern district of California is the proper venue for this lawsuit and where it has been actively litigated for over four years,” attorney Nicholas Porritt wrote in an email.
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