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Court of Chancery Opinion: Richard Tornetta vs. Elon Musk

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Re: Court of Chancery Opinion: Richard Tornetta vs. Elon Musk

#12

Why would a judge decide something so monumental when they could have had a shareholder vote? I wonder if this will shift incorporating to Texas.

From pages 2 and 3:

> Delaware law allows defendants to shift the burden of proof under the entire fairness standard where the transaction was approved by a fully informed vote of the majority of the minority stockholders. And here, Tesla conditioned the compensation plan on a majority-of-the-minority vote. But the defendants were unable to prove that the stockholder vote was fully informed because the proxy statement inaccurately described key directors as independent and misleadingly omitted details about the process.

Re: Court of Chancery Opinion: Richard Tornetta vs. Elon Musk

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post #3

So what happens now? Assuming the Delaware Supreme Court upholds the decision, will a new ex post facto pay package be negotiated?

Even before this decision he already asked for 25% voting control a couple of weeks ago and threatened to start a competing company (for AI self driving and such) if Tesla doesn't give it to him. https://www.reuters.com/technology/musk-seeks-25-voting-shar...

Hot take: Tesla would be better off without Musk dragging them down at this point.

Re: Court of Chancery Opinion: Richard Tornetta vs. Elon Musk

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post #3

So what happens now? Assuming the Delaware Supreme Court upholds the decision, will a new ex post facto pay package be negotiated?

Even before this decision he already asked for 25% voting control a couple of weeks ago and threatened to start a competing company (for AI self driving and such) if Tesla doesn't give it to him. https://www.reuters.com/technology/musk-seeks-25-voting-shar...

At no time did he threaten to create competing companies. He said he'd prefer to build products outside of Tesla.

Re: Court of Chancery Opinion: Richard Tornetta vs. Elon Musk

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post #13

So what happens now? Assuming the Delaware Supreme Court upholds the decision, will a new ex post facto pay package be negotiated?

You can really do that, as the uncertainty from that time is gone.

assume you meant can't* ?
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