Don Lemon is shifting ahead together with his lawsuit towards Elon Musk. This week a San Francisco choose dominated that the previous CNN journalist’s lawsuit towards Musk and X (previously generally known as Twitter) for breach of contract can proceed to trial. In his ruling Choose Harold Kahn declared that Lemon and his authorized crew plausiby showcased that X and Musk dedicated “fraud by false promise” and the presence of “an implied contract” of their case, per CNBC.
“The ruling means Don can maintain X and Musk accountable in open court docket,”Lemon’s legal professional, Carney Shegerian, mentioned in a press release to Deadline. “Musk is topic to the authorized course of, identical to everybody else, and that’s vital. There’s no query about Musk’s motives and legal responsibility, as documented in his personal texts and on X for tens of millions to see.”
In 2024, Lemon launched an unique discuss present on X. Nonetheless, shortly after taping the primary episode, which featured a tense interview with Musk, Lemon claims Musk terminated his contract through textual content. In August 2024, he filed a lawsuit towards the tech billionaire and his social media platform. Within the submitting, Lemon claims that Brett Weitz, X’s former head of content material, expertise and model gross sales informed him that the platform is “not going to pay him or observe via with the guarantees and representations made to him as a result of there was no signed settlement, regardless of Musk beforehand representing to Lemon that there could be no want for a proper written settlement or to ‘fill out paperwork.’”
Whereas the choose dismissed Lemon’s claims of negligent misrepresentation, defamation, retaliation, negligence, and harassment, he did verify the journalist’s claims of fraud, misappropriation of identify and likeness, and breach of implied contract. Lemon’s lawsuit is just one of many Musk and X face for failing to supply severance after layoffs and non-payment to distributors.
A date has not been set for the journalist’s case towards the Tesla mogul.
