With Twitter pressing for a quick trial, Elon Musk’s lawyers are making a case to slow things down.
In the lawsuit Twitter filed against its would-be owner, the company argued that it would only need four days to prove that the court should require Musk to follow through with his agreement to buy it for $44 billion. Twitter took the SpaceX and Tesla CEO to task in the lawsuit, not just for trying to back out of the deal but for dragging the social network through the mud in the process.
Twitter, likely tired of being in limbo as the drama drags on, requested that the trial be expedited with a start date as soon as September.
Musk’s legal team pushed back on Friday, claiming that the case will require “forensic review and analysis” of a deep pool of data, referring t …
