The trial will commence in October.

Recently, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, in a major walk-back, announced that he would be backing out of his deal to acquire social platform Twitter in its entirety in a prolific, multi-billion dollar deal. This decision has not sat well with Twitter, who assert that Musk signed a legally-binding agreement that he must honor, and that any efforts to back out of that deal were made to deliberately damage Twitter’s stock value.

Yesterday, a judge ruled that Twitter’s lawsuit against Musk was valid, and that it would proceed to a five-day trial in October. Should Twitter win this lawsuit, they would force Musk to purchase the site for the originally-agreed sum of $44 billion.

During the hearings leading up to this decision, both Twitter and Musk’s attorneys made their cases. “Musk has been and remains contractually obligated to use his best efforts to close this deal,” Twitter’s lead counsel William Savitt said. “What he’s doing is the exact opposite; it’s sabotage.”

Musk’s attorney, Andrew Rossman, countered that Musk “doesn’t have an incentive to keep this hanging for a long time,” suggesting instead that any decisions on trials be delayed until early next year.