Twitter now has an exact start date for its trial against Elon Musk over his attempt to withdraw from his $44 billion purchase offer. The Vergenotes Delaware Court of Chancery Judge Kathaleen McCormick has scheduled the lawsuit's trial for October 17th. Twitter had pressed for a four-day trial starting in September. Musk's attorneys wanted to push the trial to February 2023, arguing that they needed more time to collect and interpret data on Twitter's volume of fake accounts and bots. That, in turn, may let Twitter either force completion of the deal or demand compensation for a broken agreement.

Source: The Nation August 30, 2022 21:49 UTC