Elon Musk’s lawyer Alex Spiro of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP is strongly encouraged to appear in a Texas courtroom next week to address claims he defended Musk against defamation without permission from the court, a judge said Wednesday.
Although not formally ordering Spiro’s appearance at the May 7 hearing, “I don’t think it’s a bad idea for him to come,” Judge Maria Cantú Hexsel (D) of Texas’s 53rd Civil District Court in Travis County told Spiro’s associates.
Hexsel will decide if Spiro is barred from participating in a defamation case brought by a man alleging Musk falsely linked ...
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