Elon Musk's company, which makes robot cars (which explode unexpectedly) and spaceships (which explode unexpectedly), is currently under investigation by his lawyers as part of a sanctions motion filed last week. , proposing a time machine.
Feel free to guess what happens next.
Most of the coverage surrounding the sanctions motion (including the overstating motion) has focused on Musk's damning testimony, and despite not being admitted to the state of Texas, Quinn Emanuel's Alex Spiro defended it. pro hack vise. Mr. Spiro told The New Yorker last year that his photographic memory was the source of his legal ability, but in a statement, Mark Bankston of Farrar & Ball, attorney for plaintiff Benjamin Brody, wrote: is littered with warnings from, apparently failing to direct its memory to the Texas regulations. , that Spiro continued to violate local rules.
But apart from the affidavit, the sanctions motion also notes that Mr. Spiro is the only signatory on the motion to dismiss the case without admission. This is generally frowned upon as unauthorized legal practice in most jurisdictions.This is also the strangest unforced error since Mask. There is a local lawyer in this case.. Specifically, John Bash, played by Quinn Emanuel and Rod Rosenstein, the former federal prosecutor who specifically directed the furtherance of Trump's child abduction scheme, signed the motion all the way back in January to make this ethical fuss. could have been avoided.
But the past is the past…or is it?
Bash, secretary to Scalia and Kavanaugh, takes the originalist tendency to rewrite history to new heights with this “Mulligan Motion,” ignoring Spiro's signature, which Bash had signed from the beginning. The court is asked to assume that On the other hand, you could also argue that since it's Quinn Emanuel anyway, there's no harm done and no foul play, right? On the other hand, the company needs to be held to an even higher standard because this is the most unavoidable cock-up ever, since it's about Quinn Emanuel anyway.
Can Mr. Musk's lawyers just wave their hands and pretend that past legal documents don't exist? Wait…I feel like I've done this all before. Remember when he joked that Musk had waived his due diligence by buying Twitter, and then he tried to back out by saying the deal he signed didn't matter?
How did it turn out?
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