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Fortune
Jenn Brice

Inside Elon Musk's time-worn legal strategy of spending and grinding adversaries into submission

Photo of Elon Musk (Credit: Chesnot/Getty Images)

Elon Musk’s go-to legal strategy for the many lawsuits he and his sprawling business empire have filed over the years can be summed up in a few words: Spend and intimidate opponents into submission.

The billionaire uses his deep pockets to drag out cases until his adversaries run low on money, legal experts say. Or he uses the courts to punish critics and instill fear in anyone merely considering speaking out against him. 

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