Elon Musk has urged a federal judge to shift a trial in a shareholder lawsuit out of San Francisco because he says negative local media coverage has biased potential jurors against him.
Instead, in a filing submitted late Friday - less than two weeks before the trial was set to begin on Jan. 17 - Musk's lawyers argue it should be moved to the federal court in the western district of Texas. That district includes the state capital of Austin, which is where Musk relocated his electric car company, Tesla, in late 2021.The video above is from a previous report published after Musk reportedly lost a bigger fortune than anyone in history.
In a victory for the shareholders last spring, Judge Edward Chen ruled that Musk's tweets were false and reckless. "For the last several months, the local media have saturated this district with biased and negative stories about Mr. Musk," attorney Alex Spiro wrote in a court filing. Those news items have personally blamed Musk for recent layoffs at Twitter, Spiro wrote, and have charged that the job cuts may have even violated laws.
"The Northern District of California is the proper venue for this lawsuit and where it has been actively litigated for over four years," attorney Nicholas Porritt wrote in an email.
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