Elon Musk’s lawyer is firing back at the attorney who accused him of trying to sabotage the tech billionaire’s deposition in a Texas defamation case.
The accusations are “a transparent attempt to sensationalize this case,” Alex Spiro, a partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, said in a court filing Thursday.
Spiro is defending Musk in a lawsuit by Ben Brody, a California man claiming Musk helped spread a harmful conspiracy theory against him. Brody’s lawyer, Mark Bankston, earlier this month asked the judge in the case to sanction Spiro for his behavior during a virtual deposition of Musk.
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