Twitter Inc. has sued Elon Musk for seeking to terminate his $44 billion acquisition deal for the company, and requested a court in Delaware force the world’s richest person to complete the sale.
The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Delaware Chancery Court, pulls no punches in calling Musk’s exit strategy “a model of hypocrisy.” In a combative tone that is likely to be matched by the pugnacious Musk, Twitter’s TWTR lawyers wrote that the company brought action to “enjoin Musk from further breaches, to compel Musk to fulfill his legal…