By Twitter Inc. responded Monday to Elon Musk’s motion opposing the company’s request to expedite a trial over his intention to terminate his $44 billion takeover, saying it “fails at every level.”
The social-media company said Monday in a legal filing in Delaware Chancery Court that the public dispute harms Twitter every day that Musk is in breach of the merger agreement.
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reiterated that the court should set trial in September, on an expedited schedule.
A remote hearing is scheduled for Tuesday morning on Twitter’s motion to expedite the case.
Twitter said in the filing that Musk’s alleged core issue — an accurate count of fake and spam accounts — is a “contractually irrelevant sideshow.”
An expanded version of this report appears on WSJ.com.
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