Just another example of Musk being a prick. This isn't even about money - any reasonable sized company has D&O Insurance which covers the legal costs for executives in exactly this situation, so if they wanted to they could just hand over the money, claim it on the insurance and it wouldn't cost them much. What's interesting is that this has been filed in Delaware, but Musk in the last few days just completed paper work to move Twitter to Nevada. Presumably he is jurisdiction shopping to try and face less liability, I guess we'll see if it works.