With the Twitter v. Musk trial scheduled for October seventeenth – simply 34 days away – Musk’s authorized group has been desperately looking for both a delay of the listening to, with the intention to higher put together their protection (or simply to carry issues up much more, within the hopes that can assist him keep away from cost), or to get the case dismissed completely, on more and more spurious authorized grounds.

However questionable approaches or not, Musk’s legal professionals are actually doing their job, exploring each avenue they probably can to extricate Musk from the deal, if there’s any doable means to try this.

Which, there’s in all probability not. However nonetheless, price a attempt.

Workforce Musk’s newest proposed case for dismissal comes on the again of Peiter ‘Mudge’ Zatko’s varied accusations in opposition to Twitter over its inner operations, and flaws in its reporting and safety techniques.

Zatko, who was employed by Twitter between late 2020 and early this yr, was dismissed, Twitter says, as a result of ‘poor efficiency and management’, although he was paid out a helpful $7 million for his time.

That cost is now the idea of Musk’s newest authorized enchantment in opposition to the takeover deal, with Musk’s authorized group arguing that the thousands and thousands of {dollars} that Twitter paid to Zatko are literally in violation of the phrases of the deal.

As a result of Zatko and Twitter got here to the settlement settlement in June – after the Musk takeover deal had been agreed to – Musk’s group says that this can be a main change within the scope of the corporate, which isn’t allowed below the phrases of the takeover deal.

Although Twitter moved shortly to shut down that suggestion:

“Twitter has breached none of its representations or obligations below the Settlement, and following the receipt of the approval of Twitter’s stockholders at its September 13, 2022 particular assembly, all the situations precedent to the closing of the Merger can be happy.”

As famous, Twitter’s shareholders are assembly this week to vote on the Musk takeover, which is the ultimate step, in Twitter’s view, to securing the deal. Twitter has urged shareholders to just accept Musk’s $44 billion supply, and the expectation is that the vote will undergo with no hitch.

Which can then clear the way in which for the ultimate settlement, which Twitter’s authorized group stays completely assured will finally undergo, after the October listening to.

Musk’s group, then again, appears far much less assured, pulling out each trick and loophole that they’ll discover to push again. None of these efforts have held up to date, although that doesn’t imply that they received’t discover another technicality to get Musk off the hook when the listening to does even have its day.

It’s price noting that Musk has beforehand been in a position to make the most of a variety of authorized loopholes and technicalities in varied different authorized actions which have been introduced in opposition to him.

Again in 2019, after Musk baselessly accused a cave diver of being a pedophile by way of tweet, and was subsequently sued for defamation by stated diver consequently, Musk’s authorized group was finally in a position to get the case dismissed completely, as a result of Musk didn’t technically point out the accused within the offending tweet.

What Musk did say was this:

So it’s fairly clear who Musk was aiming his remark at, however he didn’t particularly identify anyone, which Musk’s authorized group was in a position to argue raised important sufficient doubt over his precise intent.

In different phrases, they’re good, and so they can discover and prosecute authorized loopholes fairly nicely – which, after all, is what you’d anticipate after they’re working for the world’s richest man.

As an apart, Musk additionally employed a personal detective to dig up filth on the person that he’d labeled a pedophile – for no cause – as a part of the case. So once more, Musk and Co. will do no matter must be finished to win, and you may anticipate that they are going to certainly flip over each leaf and take a look at each avenue of enchantment within the course of.

However on stability, it looks as if Twitter’s authorized group has come ready for this. Understanding how Musk operates, they do appear to have established very stable contractual phrases and obligations, that can be robust for Musk to wriggle out of.

I nonetheless wouldn’t be stunned if Musk’s authorized group does, by some means, discover a means out, however at this stage, it appears more and more unlikely.

Perhaps, on condition that he’s been in a position to slink out of assorted different obligations up to now, Musk’s conceitedness is definitely the weak level right here, and he’s truly locked in.

We’ll discover out quickly, with a decide to determine whether or not any of Workforce Musk’s varied accusations truly maintain any bearing within the legalities of the settlement.