Wilmington: A Delaware judge granted Wednesday Elon Musk's request to add whistles lower claims to his Twitter Inc countersuit but denied the billionaire's request to delay the trial over Musk's bid to walk away from his $ 14 billion deal for the company according to a court order " I am convinced that even four weeks ' delay would risk further harm to Twitter " wrote chancellor Kathale en McCormick of Delaware's court of chancery Musk's legal team argued in court on Tues day that justice demanded delaying the five - day trial, currently scheduled to begin October 17. so he could investigate allegations that Twitter had misrepresented its data security.
Last month, whistleblower allegations became public that provided Musk fresh ammunition to bolster what legal experts said was a long-shot attempt to walk away from the deal without paying a $ 1 billion termination fee. Twitter's former head of security, Peiter Zatko said in a complaint to regulators that the company falsely represented that it had a solid data security plan.
