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    Musk said he'd never settle an unjust legal case against him. He just settled this one

    A year ago this month, Elon Musk proclaimed his position on guilt and innocence in a tweet. "My commitment: We will never seek victory in a just case against us, even if we will probably win," he wrote. "We will never surrender/settle an unjust case against us, even if we will probably lose." Recently, Musk surrendered. Rather than persist in fighting a nearly three-year-old defamation lawsuit ...
    by Russ Mitchell, Los Angeles Times May 01, 2023 4 minutes
    Elon Musk arrives for the 2022 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 2, 2022, in New York.

    A year ago this month, Elon Musk proclaimed his position on guilt and innocence in a tweet.

    "My commitment: We will never seek victory in a just case against us, even if we will probably win," he wrote. "We will never surrender/settle an unjust case against us, even if we will probably lose."

    Recently, Musk surrendered. Rather than persist in fighting a nearly three-year-old defamation lawsuit filed by graduate student Randeep Hothi, the pugnacious chief executive of Tesla cried uncle, settling for $10,000. Musk's lawyers offered to settle several weeks ago, and on Monday, Hothi said, he accepted.

    Hothi's suit accused Musk of defaming him in an email claiming that Hothi "almost killed" a Tesla security guard in the parking lot of

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