Twitter, Musk Head To October Trial Over $44 Billion Deal

Twitter, Musk Head To October Trial Over $44 Billion Deal

By Tom Hals and Sheila Dang

(Reuters) -Twitter Inc’s lawsuit seeking to hold Elon Musk to his $44 billion takeover will go to trial in October, a Delaware judge ruled on Tuesday, adopting a schedule closer to the proposal by the social media company.

Twitter Inc and Musk laid out competing proposals for the trial date in court on Tuesday, with Musk pushing for a trial in February.

(Reporting by Tom Hals in Wilmington, Del. Additional reporting by Sheila Dang in DallasEditing by Noeleen Walder, Rosalba O’Brien and Matthew Lewis)