San Francisco/Los Angeles — Elon Musk is known to mouth off, and get in trouble as a result.
The civil trial is sure to be a spectacle. It is the first time in his career that Musk will be called as a witness even though he is no stranger to litigation. In 2018, a US Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit led to Musk stepping down as Tesla’s chair for three years. Earlier in 2019, Musk was deposed for several hours as part of an ongoing shareholder lawsuit regarding Tesla’s 2016 acquisition of SolarCity.
Musk responded on Twitter, as he often does. He referred to Unsworth as a “pedo guy”. Later, he asked why Unsworth had not sued him. Unsworth obliged and filed a lawsuit in September 2018. Musk deleted the tweet before the suit was filed. “Musk described Unsworth as a paedophile,” Wood said in a phone interview on Monday. “No reasonable person is going to disagree with that fact.”
“Mr Unsworth invited or otherwise induced Mr Musk’s allegedly defamatory tweets by airing a baseless accusation on an international CNN news broadcast accusing Mr Musk of engaging in a PR stunt, alleging that Mr Musk did not care about the lives of the trapped Thai children, and telling Mr Musk to stick his submarine where it hurts,” the lawyers wrote.Though it is unusual for high-profile defamation cases to go to trial, Musk is not a typical defendant.
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