The games company said that it bought the land to interfere with former President Donald Trump's plan to construct a wall along the Texas-Mexico border.

The maker of the party game Cards Against Humanity has sued Elon Musk’s SpaceX accusing it of trespassing on and damaging company-owned property in Texas.

The lawsuit, filed Thursday in Texas court, asks for $15 million to cover damages including what the company calls the destruction of natural vegetation.

  • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.world
    592·
    3 months ago

    it bought the land to interfere with former President Donald Trump’s plan to construct a wall along the Texas-Mexico border.

    Won’t work, they can use eminent domain.

    But the land is near SpaceX’s operations, known as Starbase, and according to the lawsuit, SpaceX has been using the land without permission for about six months as a staging area for construction: clearing vegetation, parking vehicles, storing gravel and running generators.

    Sounds like Elon.

    *I keep the same thing about 1sq ft so here’s the reply:

    like 1ft sq, and give it to customers

    Funny thing is courts see through shenanigans like this and really don’t like being yanked around. This would probably hurt them if anything.

    *Who split it into 1 sq ft? I highly, highly doubt any land office would accept that. That would be an obviously unusable plot. No road access, no utility access, any of that.

    • NevermindNoMind@lemmy.world
      19·
      3 months ago

      As someone else said, eminent domain is a legal process, and thus time consuming. If I remember correctly, CAHs plan or gimmick was they were going to divide up the land into very small pieces, like 1ft sq, and give it to customers. I think it might have been a black Friday sale gimmick. The idea being there would be hundreds of thousands of people with ownership of border wall land, requiring hundreds or thousands of eminent domain lawsuits to be filed. Not a ironclad solution but, in theory, an impressive way to jam up the wall project. I assume the land in question is part of this gimmick.

      • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.world
        71·
        3 months ago

        like 1ft sq, and give it to customers

        Funny thing is courts see through shenanigans like this and really don’t like being yanked around. This would probably hurt them if anything.

        *Who split it into 1 sq ft? I highly, highly doubt any land office would accept that. That would be an obviously unusable plot. No road access, no utility access, any of that.

    • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      3 months ago

      They bought it, split it up, and gave a piece to everyone that donated/funded. So like 10,000 individuals. The government can always take it, but it wasn’t intended to prevent that entirely. The intention was to make it time consuming and difficult to build the wall there, which in turn would likely prevent building starting in the first place.