Elon Musk needs time to organize for a trial over his contentious withdrawal from an settlement to purchase Twitter for $44 billion, in line with a submitting in a Delaware chancery courtroom by his attorneys on Friday.

Musk’s workforce says the trial ought to wait till subsequent 12 months, after Twitter had requested expedited remedy and a listening to as early as this September.

Of their submitting, an opposition to a movement filed earlier by Twitter, Musk’s attorneys alleged the corporate made a “sudden request for warp pace after two months of foot-dragging and obfuscation,” and stated this was Twitter’s “newest tactic to shroud the reality about spam accounts.”

An expedited listening to, Musk’s aspect says, could be an unfair tactic and a method to cowl up the extent of the platform’s issues with pretend accounts. Earlier this week, Twitter sued Musk, alleging the Tesla CEO was partaking a foul religion effort to again out of the deal.

Musk’s attorneys argued, “it might be an ‘extraordinary feat’ to attempt a posh busted deal case inside even 5 to 6 months,” they usually say “holding trial in February 2023 would steadiness the pursuits of the events and the Court docket.”

Twitter was looking for a listening to inside about 60 days.

Twitter declined to touch upon the matter. Musk did not reply to a request for remark.

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