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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

Judge rejects gag order in suit over 2018 Elon Musk tweets

Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

A federal judge in California has rejected a request from shareholders in a lawsuit to force Elon Musk stop talking about his 2018 tweets in which he said he had the funding to make Tesla a private company.

The ruling by U.S. District Judge Edward Chen Wednesday came just hours after the Tesla CEO's lawyer filed a document in the case saying that a gag order would trample on Musk's free speech rights.

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