Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk’s legal team at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan on Wednesday asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to terminate his 2018 consent decree with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which requires a Tesla attorney to pre-approve his tweets and other communications about the company.

In April, days after Musk publicly offered to buy Twitter, U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman of the Southern District of New York denied Musk’s motion to terminate the consent decree and have unrestrained use of the platform he was hoping to acquire.

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