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Elon Musk has a real knack for getting himself into sticky situations.
In 2020, he wiped a jaw-dropping $14 billion off Tesla's stock market value with a seven-word tweet.
And earlier this month, his own daughter called his words 'heinous incel nonsense' after he told Taylor Swift, "Fine Taylor … you win … I will give you a child and guard your cats with my life."
Now, the 53-year-old is being sued for $15 million by Cards of Humanity.
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According to a lawsuit filed on Thursday (September 19), Musk's spacecraft manufacturer SpaceX allegedly trespassed on and damaged property owned by the adult party game company.
The land in question is a vacant plot in Texas that just so happens to be close to SpaceX's headquarters, known as Starbase.
The lawsuit claims that the astronautics company has been using the land without permission for the past six months as a staging area for construction.
The story behind why Cards Against Humanity purchased the land is rather interesting.
As part of Donald Trump's campaign for the US presidency back in 2016, he promised to build a 'big, beautiful wall' between the US and Mexico to stop migrants from entering the country.
A year later, Cards Against Humanity bought the plot of land near the US-Mexico border to prevent this from happening, crowdfunded by $15 donations by 150,000 people.
They say that if their $15 million lawsuit is successful, they will give the money to the 150,000 donors, who would each receive $100.
The lawsuit reads: "CAH acquired the Property for the sole purpose of ensuring that it would stay that way.
"SpaceX’s abuse of this Property has not only destroyed its natural condition, but has also caused even greater harm to CAH by virtue of the damage it has caused to CAH’s relationship with its paying supporters."
While the games company rejected an offer from SpaceX to buy the land for less than half its value, it did cheekily say it would accept X (formerly Twitter) as compensation.
This isn't the first controversy SpaceX has been involved in since it was founded in 2002.
It has previously been criticised over its reliance on government contracts and dominance, holding an estimated 80 percent of the space launch market as reported by the New York Times.
And, according to CNBC its Texas launch facility has also violated a number of environmental regulations by repeatedly polluting nearby bodies of water.
