Elon Musk has requested a decide 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 decide relocate the trial to West Texas because of the “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 damaging biases in opposition to Mr. Musk’s use of Twitter,” the submitting reads. “Potential jurors that maintain damaging opinions about Mr. Musk’s use and relationship with Twitter usually because of this protection might be unable to separate this baseline bias from the info 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 workplaces are sometimes topic to protests which are “inspired” by native politicians, additional cementing this “prejudice” and leading to an unfair trial. If the decide decides to not transfer the trial to Texas, the place Tesla’s based mostly, Musk and his legal professionals ask that the trial get delayed to let the “damaging sentiments” surrounding Musk dissipate.