{"id":2769,"date":"2024-08-03T17:21:06","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T17:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trulinco.com\/blog\/news-new\/tesla-attorneys-ask-judge-to-vacate-decision-invalidating-massive-pay-package-for-elon-musk\/"},"modified":"2024-08-03T17:21:06","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T17:21:06","slug":"tesla-attorneys-ask-judge-to-vacate-decision-invalidating-massive-pay-package-for-elon-musk","status":"publish","type":"news-new","link":"https:\/\/www.trulinco.com\/blog\/news-new\/tesla-attorneys-ask-judge-to-vacate-decision-invalidating-massive-pay-package-for-elon-musk\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla attorneys ask judge to vacate decision invalidating massive pay package for Elon Musk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"theme-e FITT_Article_main__body oBTii mrzah\" data-testid=\"prism-GridColumn\" 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flex\">1:16<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"MediaPlaceholder__PlaybackWrapper absolute-fill\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Caption__Wrapper\">\n<div class=\"Caption\">\n<div class=\"Caption__TextWrapper\">\n<div class=\"Caption__Text\" aria-live=\"polite\"><span class=\"Truncate Truncate--collapsed\"><span><span class=\"RichText\">FILE &#8211; Elon Musk arrives at the 10th Breakthrough Prize Ceremony on April 13, 2024, at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles. Attorneys for Musk and Tesla\u2019s corporate directors are asking a Delaware judge on Friday, Aug. 2, 2024, to vacate her ruling requiring the company to rescind a massive and unprecedented pay package for Musk. (Photo by Jordan Strauss\/Invision\/AP, File)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span aria-label=\"The Associated Press\" class=\"RichText Caption__Credit\">The Associated Press<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ScrollSpy_container\"><span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"XQpSH\" data-testid=\"prism-divider\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"xvlfx ZRifP TKoO eaKKC bOdfO\" data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC\"><span class=\"oyrPY qlwaB AGxeB\">WILMINGTON, Del. &#8212; <\/span>Attorneys for Elon Musk and Tesla\u2019s corporate directors are asking a Delaware judge to vacate her ruling requiring the company to rescind a massive and unprecedented pay package for Musk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\">Friday&#x27;s hearing follows a January ruling in which Chancellor Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick concluded that Musk engineered the landmark 2018 pay package in <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/technology-business-1f66ff6f9e9bb10ee7f1591a5dbc79ca\">sham negotiations<\/a> with directors who were not independent. The compensation package initially carried a potential maximum value of about $56 billion, but that sum has fluctuated over the years based on Tesla&#x27;s stock price.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\">Following the court ruling, Tesla shareholders <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/tesla-elon-musk-pay-package-shareholder-vote-8b6cce1a1aa460dbbaac69eb73e0e5e7\">met in June and ratified<\/a> Musk\u2019s 2018 pay package for a second time, again by an overwhelming margin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\">Defense attorneys say the vote makes clear that Tesla shareholders, with full knowledge of the flaws in the 2018 process that McCormick pointed out in her January ruling, are adamant that Musk is entitled to the pay package.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\">\u201cHonoring the shoulder vote would affirm the strength of our corporate system,\u201d David Ross, an attorney for Musk and the other individual defendants, told McCormick. \u201cThis was stockholder democracy working.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"oLzSq QrHMO GbsKS pvsTF EhJPu vPlOC zNYgW OsTsW AMhAA daRVX ISNQ sKyCY eRftA acPPc ebfE nFwaT MCnQE mEeeY SmBjI xegrY VvTxJ iulOd NIuqO zzscu lzDCc aHUBM hbvnu OjMNy eQqcx SVqKB GQmdz jaoD iShaE ONJdw vrZxD OnRTz gbbfF roDbV kRoBe oMlSS gfNzt oJhud eXZcf zhVlX\">\n<div data-testid=\"prism-ad-wrapper\" style=\"transition:min-height 0.3s linear 1s\" data-ad-placeholder=\"true\">\n<div data-box-type=\"fitt-adbox-fitt-article-inline-outstream\" data-testid=\"prism-ad\">\n<div class=\"Ad fitt-article-inline-outstream  ad-slot\" data-slot-type=\"fitt-article-inline-outstream\" data-slot-kvps=\"pos=fitt-article-inline-outstream-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\">Ross told the judge that the defendants were not challenging the factual findings or legal conclusions in her ruling, but simply asking that she vacate her order directing Tesla to rescind the pay package.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\">McCormick, however, seemed skeptical of the defense arguments, peppering attorneys with questions and noting that there is no precedent in Delaware law for allowing a post-trial shareholder vote to ratify adjudicated breaches of fiduciary duty by corporate directors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\">\u201cThis has never been done before,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\">Defense attorneys argued that, while they could find no case that is exactly comparable, Delaware law has long recognized shareholder ratification as a cure to corporate governance errors, and has long acknowledged the \u201csovereignty\u201d of shareholders as the ultimate owners of a corporation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\">\u201cI candidly don\u2019t see how Delaware law can tell the owners of the company that they\u2019re not entitled to make the decision they made,\u201d said Rudolf Koch, an attorney for Tesla.<\/p>\n<div class=\"oLzSq QrHMO GbsKS pvsTF EhJPu vPlOC zNYgW OsTsW AMhAA daRVX ISNQ sKyCY eRftA acPPc ebfE nFwaT MCnQE mEeeY SmBjI xegrY VvTxJ iulOd NIuqO zzscu lzDCc aHUBM hbvnu OjMNy eQqcx SVqKB GQmdz jaoD iShaE ONJdw vrZxD OnRTz gbbfF roDbV kRoBe oMlSS gfNzt oJhud eXZcf zhVlX\">\n<div data-testid=\"prism-ad-wrapper\" style=\"min-height:250px;transition:min-height 0.3s linear 0s\" data-ad-placeholder=\"true\">\n<div data-box-type=\"fitt-adbox-fitt-article-inline-box\" data-testid=\"prism-ad\">\n<div class=\"Ad fitt-article-inline-box  ad-slot\" data-slot-type=\"fitt-article-inline-box\" data-slot-kvps=\"pos=fitt-article-inline-box\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\">Donald Verrilli, a lawyer for an induvial stockholder who owns more than 19,000 Tesla shares, suggested that it would be wrong for the lone shareholder who filed the lawsuit to thwart the will of the majority of Tesla shareholders. At the time the lawsuit was filed, the plaintiff owned just nine shares of Tesla stock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\">\u201cThe voice of the majority of shareholders should matter\u2026. This lawsuit is not representing the interest of the shareholders,&#8221; Verrilli said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\">Thomas Grady, an attorney for a group of Florida objectors who own or manage almost 8 million Tesla shares with some $2 billion, argued that for McCormick to rule for the plaintiff, she has to \u201cdisenfranchise\u201d all other Tesla shareholders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\">Greg Varallo, an attorney for the plaintiff, urged McCormick not to give any credence to the June shareholder vote, saying it has no legal precedent in Delaware or anywhere else. There also is no reason for the court to reopen the trial record and admit new evidence, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\">Under Delaware law, stockholders have no authority to overrule courts by trying to use a post-trial ratification vote as a \u201cgiant eraser,\u201d Varallo argued.<\/p>\n<div class=\"oLzSq QrHMO GbsKS pvsTF EhJPu vPlOC zNYgW OsTsW AMhAA daRVX ISNQ sKyCY eRftA acPPc ebfE nFwaT MCnQE mEeeY SmBjI xegrY VvTxJ iulOd NIuqO zzscu lzDCc aHUBM hbvnu OjMNy eQqcx SVqKB GQmdz jaoD iShaE ONJdw vrZxD OnRTz gbbfF roDbV kRoBe oMlSS gfNzt oJhud eXZcf zhVlX\">\n<div data-testid=\"prism-ad-wrapper\" style=\"transition:min-height 0.3s linear 1s\" data-ad-placeholder=\"true\">\n<div data-box-type=\"fitt-adbox-fitt-article-inline-outstream\" data-testid=\"prism-ad\">\n<div class=\"Ad fitt-article-inline-outstream  ad-slot\" data-slot-type=\"fitt-article-inline-outstream\" data-slot-kvps=\"pos=fitt-article-inline-outstream-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy\">\u201cRatification is not magic, and it never has been,\u201d Varallo added. \u201cThis should end here and now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN\">McCormick gave no indication on when she would rule. 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