Not Pictured: Him shutting up (Photograph by Diego Donamaria/Getty Photographs for SXSW)
Elon Musk actually likes speaking. His penchant for not shutting up is pretty expensive too. Amid the very public shows of him begging to get sued for publicly discriminating against his potential employees or getting booed bragging about how rich he is with Dave Chappelle, it’s simple to get a way that this man doesn’t know when to close up. Surprisingly — maybe as a consequence of some botched Neuralink research — the tycoon might have realized a brand new trick. This time, he’s asking a courtroom to not make him yap off at trial. From Reuters:
Elon Musk has requested a decide to dam a bid to query him in a lawsuit that claims he unfold lies on his social media platform X {that a} California man participated in an extremist group’s road brawl.
The billionaire CEO in a submitting in Texas state courtroom, opens new tab on Monday known as the transfer to depose him a “clear effort to harass” him and drive up his litigation prices.
“Richest Man In The World Complains About Litigation Prices” feels like an article written by The Onion, but Musk actually has a history of complaining about his representation. However it’s actually laborious to take critically the notion that Musk truly cares about litigation prices when he gave no fucks after inflicting Tesla inventory to drop 9% after smoking weed with Joe Rogan or disappeared $25B after purchasing Twitter. In comparison with the cash Musk routinely fumbles in public, the prices of this case are pocket change:
The lawsuit seeks greater than $1 million in damages for what Brody known as Musk’s “astonishingly reckless conduct,” and mentioned he must be allowed to query, opens new tab Musk as a part of the lawsuit “to discover ideas of negligence and malice.”
… 1,000,000? The case is price certainly one of his accountant’s rounding errors and now he desires to be frugal? Give us a break, dude.
Elon Musk Asks Texas Court To Bar Deposition In Defamation Lawsuit [Reuters]
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