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Could Twitter Force Elon Musk to Buy Twitter?

Armchair lawyers claim the court could order Elon Musk to go through with his offer to buy Twitter for $54.20 a share under a remedy known as 'specific performance'. Is this true? [updated]

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Jun 20, 2022
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Since Elon Musk put his deal to buy Twitter on hold1 I have repeatedly heard people claim that the Delaware Chancery Courts could force the billionaire to close on the deal. For example, a 30-year lawyer named Steven Ellison, Esq. wrote an article in FindLaw asking that very question suggesting, “If Musk tries to abandon the deal, Twitter could sue him a…

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