March 08, 2022
Elon Musk's feud with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission escalated Tuesday when the Tesla CEO asked a judge to ax his 2018 settlement agreement with the agency over his use of Twitter, saying it has used the deal to stifle his constitutional right to "speak his mind in public."
February 24, 2022
A New York federal judge on Thursday shot down requests from Tesla Inc. and CEO Elon Musk for intervention to address what they have claimed are investigative harassment and broken promises by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
February 18, 2022
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission told a New York federal court Friday that despite Tesla Inc. and Elon Musk's claims of a "harassment campaign" earlier in the week, it is in compliance with the court's order regarding their 2018 settlement agreements over Musk's Twitter activity.
February 17, 2022
Tesla and Elon Musk have asked a Manhattan federal judge to make the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission stop badgering them with "endless, unfounded investigations" and hold up its end of their 2018 settlement agreements over Musk's Twitter activity.
March 12, 2019
Embattled Tesla CEO Elon Musk has told a Manhattan federal judge that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's efforts to have him held in contempt over a tweet that allegedly violated a court order "smacks of retaliation and censorship" from an agency "embarrassed" by his criticisms of it.
February 25, 2019
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission urged a Manhattan federal judge Monday to hold Tesla co-founder Elon Musk in contempt for inaccurately tweeting the electric car maker would make about 500,000 vehicles this year, which the agency says violates the settlement over last year's tweets claiming he might take the company private.
October 16, 2018
A New York federal judge on Tuesday signed off on a pair of settlements that will see Tesla Inc. and its embattled CEO Elon Musk pay the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission $20 million apiece to end claims that Musk misled investors in tweets about taking the Silicon Valley-based electric car maker private.