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David Gura

A centuries-old court in Delaware will decide if Elon Musk has to buy Twitter

The battle over Twitter's future is moving into a courtroom — not in California, where it is headquartered, but in Delaware, where the social media company was incorporated in 2007.

On Tuesday, Twitter sued billionaire Elon Musk in the Delaware Court of Chancery, a hub of high-profile corporate litigation that is more than two centuries old, descended from the the High Court of Chancery in Great Britain.

In a 62-page lawsuit, the company asked the court to order the world's richest man to complete a $44 billion takeover deal he has been trying to back out of.

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