Re:Elon Musk moves ahead with Twitter deal in 13D filing
by bscphil on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @01:41AM
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What? Why would you say that? Much more plausible is the view that if you have high dollar lawyers on both sides crafting an airtight contract, and a jurisdiction that is heavily incentivized to stick to the letter of the law, then you can count on proper enforcement ... in contract cases. I would not apply this lesson to literally any other area of the legal system.
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Re:Elon Musk moves ahead with Twitter deal in 13D filing
by sidcool on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @02:18AM
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In many countries the judge would be bought off or threatened. There would be people "falling off windows".
And if that could be done in the US, the rich would absolutely do it. US legal structures, despite its flaws, is one of the better ones in the world.
Re:Elon Musk moves ahead with Twitter deal in 13D filing
by nemothekid on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @05:25AM
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The idea that the rich don't influence the courts in America is absurd. The reason why Musk couldn't just "do what he wanted" is because the other side of the table was also the wealthy elites. When it comes to elites vs elites, things start to get played by the book.
If Musk were allowed to make a mockery of the Delaware court, it would have shaken the bedrock for the trillions of dollars that corporate America rests under.