Elon Musk Is on Trial, But Another Case Draws Lawyers’ Tears

March 18, 2026, 10:18 PM UTC

It was a tale of two cases in Judge Charles R. Breyer’s Wednesday morning court session in San Francisco.

One involves the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, and his turbulent, headline-grabbing purchase of Twitter Inc. four years ago. The other involves the escalating mental health crisis of a man imprisoned for supplying the fentanyl that killed a father and his 13-month-old son.

As jurors entered their second day of deliberations to decide whether Musk defrauded Twitter investors when he tweeted the $44 billion purchase deal was “temporarily on hold,” Breyer, a 28-year veteran of the US District Court for the ...

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