Musk-Targeted Judge Uses Scrabble Tiles to Reassign Two Cases

A Delaware judge accused of bias by attorneys for Elon Musk and Tesla Inc. used a board game Thursday to force the firms to randomly select two new judges to preside over cases concerning lingering allegations of corporate wrongdoing before the electric vehicle-maker moved to Texas.

The chief judge of the Delaware Chancery Court 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.

Lawyers for Tesla and its CEO, the world’s richest person, had ...