Elon Musk asks judge to start Twitter trial on October 17

Elon Musk asked a judge to schedule a five-day trial beginning October 17, not October 10 as requested by Twitter Inc, to resolve his bid to walk away from his $44 billion deal to acquire the social media platform, according to a court filing on Tuesday.

A lawyer for Musk, the world’s richest person, said he was writing to ask the judge to “break the impasse to allow things to move forward promptly.”

Twitter declined to comment.