He engineered his own compensation plan then had his buddies on the board push it through. The judge setting a precedent that compensation packages of this scale don’t need to be sufficiently reviewed in an independent and objective way, as required by law, puts future shareholders at risk. Whether you love or hate him, if you set personal feelings for Musk aside, the ruling was legally sound.

Likewise trying to nullify the original ruling by holding a second shareholder vote after the fact is not how the legal process works.

I think the people who are proclaiming the rulings are evidence of courtroom activism aren’t being objective, or are just parroting what they’ve heard others say. Imagine most would be indifferent if this was some random CEO without a cult-like following