Musk vs the “like” button: Tesla CEO challenges judge over LinkedIn activity

Be careful what you like on social media – you never know when a billionaire’s lawyers might be going over your likes with a fine-toothed comb. Elon Musk’s lawyers requested that a judge with a history of presiding over his legal battles step aside this week. The reason? A post she liked on LinkedIn. In a motion for recusal, Musk’s legal team requested that Delaware Chancery Court Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick remove herself from a pair of Tesla lawsuits to “avoid an appearance of bias.” The post in question celebrated a verdict in a San Francisco federal court that found Musk defrauded Twitter investors in the chaotic days before he bought the social network. In the filing, Musk’s legal team claim that the post went beyond normal criticism into “inflammatory” territory by “instructing Mr. Musk and his attorneys at Quinn Emanuel to be ‘deeply ashamed,’ sneering at Mr. Musk and his attorneys for an adverse multi-billion-dollar jury verdict, and cheering a facile non-judicial notion of