For more than three hours on Tuesday, attorneys for Twitter and Elon Musk clashed in court over discovery demands, a whistleblower complaint, and whether the postpone the October trial date.
At one point, Twitter’s lawyer asked a Delaware judge to sanction Musk’s counsel for failing to turn over text messages until the company turned up the heat on his legal team.
“We submit that something needs to be done to put defendants on notice that this kind of behavior has to stop,” Twitter’s attorney Bradley Wilson argued.
According to Twitter, the company worried that the sought-after text messages would have been deleted, until the social media giant filed its sanctions motion.
“It turns out that if you tell Mr. Musk that you know he has relevant text messages, and you file a motion for sanctions, you get production of text messages,” Wilson said.
In the rambunctious hours-long hearing, Twitter and Musk’s attorneys traded complaints about the other party’s production of documents. Twitter described the evidence that Musk’s attorneys turned over as “meager,” and Musk’s counsel asked to delay trial to pore over more than 200,000 pages of Twitter’s internal communications over Slack.
“It has been a game of hide and seek,” Musk’s attorney Andrew Rossman, from the firm Skadden Arps, said.
In July, Twitter sued Musk for pulling out of a $44 billion merger deal. Musk has since filed a countersuit against Twitter, accusing the company of fraudulently inflating the company’s value.
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