A Scrabble Tile Draw Reshuffles Musk Cases: Delaware Brief

Musk Judge’s Unconventional Case Shuffle

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The chief judge of the Delaware Chancery Court, accused of bias by attorneys for Elon Musk and Tesla, reassigned two cases involving Musk in a way that she said would ensure objectivity: Scrabble tiles.

During a tense hearing in Wilmington, Chancellor Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick made attorneys blindly choose Scrabble tiles from a bag held by one of her law clerks, with each tile corresponding to the name of one of her six colleagues on the prestigious business court’s bench, Jennifer Kay reports.

McCormick said she decided to use Scrabble tiles “to eliminate an allegation ...