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Elon Musk's Twitter faces fine of $350K for delay in providing Trump’s documents

Elon Musk's Twitter faces fine of $350K for delay in providing Trump’s documents
 

Elon Musk’s Twitter was fined $3,50,000 for failing to immediately cooperate with a Justice Department search warrant for documents connected to former United States’ President Donald Trump's account.

The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit found Twitter juggernaut in civil contempt. The district court had also granted a search warrant in a criminal case, and Twitter was ordered to give material pertaining to Donald Trump's Twitter account.

The court filing said, “Although Twitter ultimately complied with the warrant, the company did not fully produce the requested information until three days after a court-ordered deadline.” Subsequently, the district court imposed a $350,000 sanction for the delay in providing important documents. 

According to reports, Twitter said that the non-disclosure order violated its First Amendment rights, and the court should have halted the execution of the warrant until the issues raised by the social media company were handled.

In its appeal to the district court, Twitter further stated that by finding the social media company in contempt and applying the penalty, the district court abused its discretion.

Beryl Alaine Howell, an American lawyer who serves as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, said that there were reasonable reasons to believe that disclosing the warrant to former US President Donald Trump would jeopardize the ongoing investigation.

John "Jack" Smith, Special Counsel for the United States Department of Justice, is reportedly investigating the case. 

Earlier this month, former US President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiring the results of the 2020 presidential election. Judge Moxila Upadhyaya read the charges in the indictment brought by Jack Smith against the former US President.

Another case related to election meddling will be the subject of a hearing before US District Judge Tanya Chutkan on August 28. 


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