Elon Musk requested a choose to schedule a five-day trial starting October 17, not October 10 as requested by Twitter, to resolve his bid to stroll away from his $44 billion (roughly Rs. 3,51,540 crore) deal to accumulate the social media platform, in response to a court docket submitting on Tuesday.

A lawyer for Musk, the world’s richest particular person, mentioned he was writing to ask the choose to “break the impasse to allow things to move forward promptly.”

Twitter declined to remark.

Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick, the chief choose on Delaware’s Court of Chancery, final week ordered an October trial, which guarantees to be one of many greatest Wall Street authorized fights in years. However, she left it to the events to work out the exact schedule.

Musk, who’s the chief govt of electrical car maker Tesla, had requested a February trial, which he mentioned offered the time he wanted for a radical investigation of faux accounts on Twitter. He mentioned the corporate misrepresented its person numbers and subsequently breached the merger settlement, permitting him to stroll away.

The firm, which had requested a September trial, mentioned the pretend account difficulty was a distraction and deal phrases require Musk to pay up.

The Musk letter additionally requested the choose to order Twitter to right away produce what it referred to as “core documents,” require Twitter to supply all uncooked knowledge by August 1 and require the corporate to supply paperwork inside 18 days of a request.

Musk accused Twitter of refusing to right away present paperwork equivalent to manuals and insurance policies relating to energetic each day person calculations and synthetic intelligence and “all items in the data room.”

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