DOVER, Del. — The attorneys who effectively argued that a huge pay plan for Tesla CEO Elon Musk was unlawful and needto be voided have asked the administering judge to award them business stock worth $5.6 billion as legal charges.
The lawyers, who represented Tesla investors in the case chose in January, made the demand of the Delaware judge in court documents submitted Friday.
The quantity would obviously be far and away the biggest such award, if authorized. Lawyers in class-action matches stemming from the collapse of Enron got a record $688 million in legal costs in 2008.
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