{"id":113303,"date":"2022-10-06T21:48:18","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T21:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=113303"},"modified":"2022-10-06T21:59:59","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T21:59:59","slug":"judge-delays-twitter-trial-gives-musk-time-to-seal-buyout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/judge-delays-twitter-trial-gives-musk-time-to-seal-buyout","title":{"rendered":"Judge delays Twitter trial, gives Musk time to seal buyout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A judge has delayed a looming trial between Twitter and Elon Musk, giving Musk more time to close his $44 billion deal to buy the company after months spent fighting to get out of it. Chancellor Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick, head of the Delaware Chancery Court, said Thursday that Musk has until Oct. 28 to close the deal. A trial set for Oct. 17 will happen in November if he doesn&#8217;t, she said. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP&#8217;s earlier story follows below. Twitter is asking a Delaware court to proceed with an upcoming trial against Elon Musk, saying the billionaire refuses to accept the &#8220;contractual obligations&#8221; of his April agreement to buy the social media company for $44 billion. Twitter attorneys sent a letter Thursday to the Delaware Chancery Court&#8217;s head judge, not long after Musk&#8217;s legal team asked her to call off the trial while he works on a renewed bid to buy the company. Twitter disputed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A judge has delayed a looming trial between Twitter and Elon Musk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,1],"tags":[33,293,27,42,43],"class_list":["post-113303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-news","tag-business","tag-congress-courts","tag-economy","tag-politics","tag-u-s-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}