Musk’s authorized workforce had initially requested for the trial to happen in 2023. Twitter’s authorized workforce argued it was essential to expedite the case with a purpose to restrict the “hurt” to its enterprise and to make sure the deal might be accomplished earlier than Oct. 24, the “drop lifeless” date by which the 2 sides had beforehand agreed to shut the deal.

Musk’s lawyer beforehand alleged that Twitter was “in materials breach of a number of provisions” of the deal, claiming the corporate had withheld knowledge Musk requested with a purpose to consider the variety of bots and spam accounts on the platform. Twitter’s authorized workforce later referred to as Musk’s tried termination “invalid and wrongful” and urged within the go well with that Musk is utilizing bots as a pretext to attempt to exit a deal over which he now has purchaser’s regret.