Elon Musk has requested a choose to maneuver an upcoming trial for a shareholder lawsuit out of San Francisco, citing considerations that the jury could have a bias in opposition to him, as reported earlier by CNBC. In a Friday submitting, Musk requests that the choose relocate the trial to West Texas as a result of “native negativity” within the Bay Space surrounding Elon Musk and his companies, stopping a good trial.
“The current native media protection has created an setting that encourages the District’s jury pool to carry detrimental biases in opposition to Mr. Musk’s use of Twitter,” the submitting reads. “Potential jurors that maintain detrimental opinions about Mr. Musk’s use and relationship with Twitter typically because of this protection shall be unable to separate this baseline bias from the details on this case and thus be unable to impartially consider Musk’s conduct.”
The submitting claims Musk’s mass layoffs at Twitter “have already created substantial bias” in native jurors.
It additionally claims that Musk and his San Francisco places of work are sometimes topic to protests which can be “inspired” by native politicians, additional cementing this “prejudice” and leading to an unfair trial. If the choose decides to not transfer the trial to Texas, the place Tesla’s based mostly, Musk and his attorneys ask that the trial get delayed to let the “detrimental sentiments” surrounding Musk dissipate.
