Musk Moves to Exit 11th-Hour Delaware Lawsuit by Tesla Investors

Elon Musk is looking to end one of the final court cases confronting him in Delaware, saying the lawsuit does little more than “nitpick” his personal behavior when investors should be thanking him for their soaring stock returns.

The world’s richest man and other Tesla Inc. board members moved to dismiss the dispute, calling the legal claims “a laundry list of disagreements” that have nothing to do with fiduciary breaches or executive misconduct. The consolidated litigation involves allegations about insider trading, Musk’s acquisition of Twitter Inc., and his artificial intelligence side projects.

The shareholder suit by a group of ...