Rejected a second time the astronomical remuneration of its chief executive Tesla, Elon Musk, who broke it a record of 56 billion dollars as decided by the Delaware court in the USA.

The decision comes after months of legal wrangling even though the amount was approved by the company’s shareholders and management in the summer.

According to the BBC, Judge Kathaleen McCormick upheld her previous ruling issued last January, in which she argued that board members were too influenced by Musk.

The technology mogul himself, Elon Musk, reacted to this decision by writing to X: “Shareholders should control the votes of companies, not judges.”

Tesla vowed to appeal the ruling, saying the ruling was “wrong.”

“This ruling, if not overturned, means that judges and plaintiffs’ lawyers are running Delaware corporations, not their rightful owners – the shareholders,” the company said in a post on X.

The judge said the pay package would be the largest ever agreed to for a chief executive of a listed company and went on to say that Tesla failed to prove that the pay package, which dates back to 2018, was fair, she said.

Last June, shareholders voted in favor of the fee by 75% but the judge did not agree that the fee should be that high despite “creative” arguments by Tesla’s lawyers.

The judge also ruled that the company shareholder who brought the case against Tesla and Musk should receive $345 million. dollar in remuneration and not the 5.6 billion dollar in Tesla shares he had requested.

However, many believe that a ruling in favor of Musk and Tesla would have violated Delaware’s conflict of interest laws.