Elon Musk's chances of winning an acrimonious legal battle with Twitter have taken a blow by the appointment of the judge in the trial, a legal expert said.
Twitter, Elon Musk, and the 'pleasant, unassuming' judge who may force him to pay billions of dollarsElon Musk faces a lawsuit from Twitter after pulling out of a $44 billion takeover deal.Columbia Law professor Eric Talley said her record of siding with sellers was bad news for Musk.Elon Musk's chances of winning an acrimonious legal battle with Twitter have taken a blow by the appointment of the judge in the trial, a legal expert said.
Kathaleen McCormick appointed herself to oversee Twitter's lawsuit in the Delaware Chancery Court, whichEric Talley, a professor at Columbia Law School who has known McCormick for seven years, told Insider her background meant Musk's chances of winning look slim.McCormick has served as chancellor of Delaware Chancery Court since last year. She is notable for previously forcing a buyer to complete an acquisition in circumstances similar to Musk's reasoning for his own withdrawal.
Specific performance is an equitable, discretionary remedy which, if granted, compels a party to perform a contractual obligation,"She not only was unsympathetic to them, but even after they had ginned up some resistance amongst their financiers and tried to point to that as a reason they should be allowed to walk away, she wasn't having any of it," Talley said.
The academic saw it as an interesting contrast to a case heard by Delaware Chancery Court's vice-chancellor, Travis Laster, in which he
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