DOVER, Del. — A Delaware judge on Tuesday purchased lawyers for billionaire Elon Musk to produce a log of specific files that relate to previous Twitter security chief Peiter “Mudge” Zatko however not straight to Zatko’s whistleblower grievance versus the social media giant.
The judgment came near the start of a three-hour hearing on different pretrial conflicts inbetween lawyers for Musk and Twitter over askedfor file disclosures. The 2 sides will face off in a trial arranged to start Oct. 17 that will choose whether Twitter can force Musk to bring through with his concurred $44 billion acquisition of the business.
Scheduled depositions of Musk and Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal on Monday were delayed. Musk is now setup to be deposed in Delaware on Oct. 6 and Oct. 7, according to a Twitter court filing late Monday.
Musk, the world’s wealthiest guy, concurred in April to buy Twitter and take it personal, offering $54.20 a share and swearing to loosenup the business’s policing of material and to root out phony accounts. In July, Musk showed that he desired to back away from the offer, declaring Twitter had stoppedworking to offer him enough info about the number of phony accounts on its platform.
The hearing veryfirst concentrated on concerns associated to Twitter’s previous security chief Peiter Zatko, who submitted a whistleblower case versus Twitter in July declaring a number of drawbacks