The Delaware Chancery Court hearing the litigation between billionaire Ilon Musk and Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) ruled on Thursday that Musk must complete the acquisition of the platform by October 28 if he wants to avoid litigation. The ruling stems from the fact that Musk made a second offer to buy Twitter a few days ago.

The first time the parties agreed on a deal was in April. Soon Musk had complaints about the service – in his opinion, Twitter did not give him full information about the number of bots and spam accounts on the platform. Because of this, Musk wanted to break the deal. As a result, Musk and Twitter filed lawsuits against each other. However, on Tuesday it became known that the billionaire again offered the management of the service a deal on the same terms as in April, and asked to stop the litigation.

On Thursday, the first hearing in the case was held. Musk’s lawyers in court urged Twitter to postpone the court hearing until October 17 so that the billionaire could raise the necessary funding to pay for the deal and complete it. According to his lawyers, Twitter has not yet responded to his offer to buy. Twitter said in a statement read out in court that Musk and his lawyers had behaved dishonestly by announcing their desire to finalize the deal just days before the trial.