Judge agrees Musk’s buddy David Sacks is fighting a subpoena for podcast clout

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Twitter’s lawyers argued David Sacks’ main reason for trying to fight a subpoena filed in their case against Elon Musk is because he said he would on a podcast, and in a ruling issued Friday, the judge agreed.

Chancellor Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick (pdf):

In an apparent effort to keep Sacks’s promise to his podcast listeners, the movants created the very burden of which they now complain.

The Motion to Quash is denied.

This closes a side story to the main event of Twitter suing Elon Musk over his attempt to get out of their $44 billion acquisition agreement after the company’s lawyers subpoenaed Sacks as “a potential investor in the merger Musk seeks to escape.” Sacks is a venture capitalist and, along with Musk, is a member of the…

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Source: TheVerge