Stanford Pulled Into Dropout Musk’s Legal Fight With Twitter (2)

Aug. 31, 2022, 8:25 PM UTC

Stanford Universitywas subpoenaed by famous dropout Elon Musk as part of his legal fight with Twitter Inc. over his plan to walk away from a $44 billion takeover offer.

Lawyers for Musk want all records of all “conversations, conferences, discussions, interviews, meetings, negotiations and agreements” between Twitter and Stanford as well as anyone related to the university about the proposed deal, according to a subpoena issued Wednesday in Delaware.

At the age of 24, Musk started a doctoral program in physics at Stanford in 1995 but dropped out after two days. Earlier this month, the Tesla Inc. founder ...

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