A federal judge has turned down a request by the U.S. government to sanction Elon Musk for missing a scheduled deposition.
Sanctioning Musk, the billionaire owner of SpaceX and the social media platform X, would not serve a purpose, U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley wrote in a three-page decision.
In a case brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the parties agreed that Musk would testify on Sept. 10. Three SEC lawyers flew to Los Angeles for the deposition. But on the morning of Sept. 10, lawyers for Musk told SEC lawyers that Musk could not testify because his position as chief technology officer of SpaceX “required he urgently travel to the East Coast” for the Polaris Dawn launch….