A federal choose claimed Tesla and Main Govt Elon Musk will have to facial area a lawsuit declaring they misled shareholders when Musk tweeted that he experienced secured funding to consider his electric car or truck firm non-public in a $72 billion transaction.

U.S. District Judge Edward Chen dominated on Wednesday that shareholders will be permitted to test to show Musk meant to defraud them with his Aug. seven, 2018, tweet and adhere to-up messages about ideas for his Palo Alto, California-primarily based firm.

The choose claimed shareholders could also test to show Musk’s tweet was the “proximate result in”