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[–] fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Best part was he tried to chicken out of his own deal but the feds obv wouldn't allow him back off on his very own proposal to buy Twitter in the first place!

[–] dragontamer@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the feds

Delaware Court.

Contract law is weird.

[–] droans@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not really. He entered into a binding contract and agreed to bypass due diligence.

That wasn't even offered by Twitter, he just agreed without any prompting.

[–] dragontamer@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes yes yes. But that binding contract was in Delaware. Because contract law is weird.

In practice, most business contracts are enforced by the state of Delaware, not the federal government nor any national-level court. Yes, its a state-level court.

[–] joel_feila@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Side fact. Delaware's has more registered companies then people