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Twitter filed its anticipated lawsuit in opposition to Elon Musk on Tuesday, demanding that he full the $44 billion buy of the social community.

“Musk refuses to honor his obligations to Twitter and its stockholders as a result of the deal he signed now not serves his private pursuits,” the lawsuit mentioned. “Having mounted a public spectacle to place Twitter in play, and having proposed after which signed a seller-friendly merger settlement, Musk apparently believes that he—not like each different social gathering topic to Delaware contract regulation—is free to vary his thoughts, trash the corporate, disrupt its operations, destroy stockholder worth, and stroll away.”

The go well with described “an extended checklist of fabric contractual breaches by Musk which have solid a pall over Twitter and its enterprise” and requested the courtroom to “compel consummation of the merger upon satisfaction of the few excellent circumstances.” The lawsuit factors out that within the buy settlement, “Twitter negotiated for itself a strong proper to demand particular efficiency of the settlement’s phrases that encompassed the best to compel defendants to shut the deal, and ensured that Musk personally was certain by that provision (amongst others).”