Possible large attorneys fees bill (billions) landing on Tesla’s Accounts Payable desk if appeals fail:
I love how this reads. The compensation package for Elon was too expensive and hurts Tesla, and the shareholders, so let's get it cancelled, and as a reward for that I should get paid a large percentage, multiple billions, of the compensation package that was cancelled. So instead of Tesla only paying a small amount in taxes for Elon's compensation package Tesla would have to pay the attorney/plaintiff more than what the package would cost Tesla, actually hurting Tesla and the shareholders significantly.
Hopefully the appeal is successful.