Tesla Investor’s Suit Targets Vote on Texas Move, Musk Pay

  • Suit alleges Tesla is misleading shareholders ahead of vote
  • Fighting over billionaire’s record-setting pay plan continues

Musk has been threatening to shift Tesla’s corporate home from Delaware to Texas.

Photographer: Thomas Ryan Allison/Bloomberg
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A Tesla Inc. shareholder sued to challenge an upcoming proxy vote about whether the electric-car maker should move its corporate home to Texas and re-approve a $56 billion pay package for co-founder Elon Musk that was thrown out by a Delaware judge.

Donald Ball, who owns more than 28,000 Tesla shares, argues the company is violating its corporate charter by saying it needs only a bare majority of shareholders’ votes in the June 13 proxy fight to move its state of incorporation away from Delaware.