Lawyers for Elon Musk and his pro-Trump America PAC filed a motion seeking to remove the lawsuit brought by the Philadelphia District Attorney to stop his illegal $1 million lottery.
Team Musk seeks to move the lawsuit to federal court from a state-level court.
On late Wednesday a notice was filed in Pennsylvania federal court for DA Larry Krasner’s suit, hours after a Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas judge ordered Musk to appear for an emergency hearing to determine whether the $1 million lottery should be halted.
That hearing took place this morning at 10a.m. ET. where Judge Angelo Foglietta of the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas wrote that “all parties must be present at the time of the hearing.”
Apparently Musk was a no-show.
As a rule, federal law bars a state court proceeding from taking place if a party in the case has filed a notice of removal to federal court and a copy of that notice is filed with the state court. The notice was filed in the Court of Common Pleas at 9:07 a.m. ET on Thursday.
