Camila Dominovsky

The pay package in question is the largest in history.

A lower court in Delaware had thrown it out, saying Musk had too much influence over his own pay.

Tesla appealed, emphasizing that shareholders backed this pay package, which said Musk would only get paid if he met huge, seemingly unachievable targets for growth.

Here's Jeff Wall, a lawyer for Tesla, in his closing remarks.

Some justices on the state's high court seemed sympathetic to Tesla's arguments, with one justice raising the fact that Musk couldn't take back the work he did over many years.

Camilla Dominovsky, NPR News.

You're listening to Shortwave from NPR. Hey, Shortwavers. Camila Dominovsky here in the host chair with a mystery. A decades-long puzzle centering on a string of inexplicable deaths. The victims were coho salmon showing up dead in urban streams in Puget Sound around Seattle today. in very suspicious circumstances.

You're listening to Shortwave from NPR. Hey, Shortwavers. Camila Dominovsky here in the host chair with a mystery. A decades-long puzzle centering on a string of inexplicable deaths. The victims were coho salmon showing up dead in urban streams in Puget Sound around Seattle today. in very suspicious circumstances.

You're listening to Shortwave from NPR. Hey, Shortwavers. Camila Dominovsky here in the host chair with a mystery. A decades-long puzzle centering on a string of inexplicable deaths. The victims were coho salmon showing up dead in urban streams in Puget Sound around Seattle today. in very suspicious circumstances.

when he was called in to the case. These fish spawn in freshwater, strike off for the open seas, trek back to the place of their birth, but then they die before they can spawn. And this keeps happening for years.

when he was called in to the case. These fish spawn in freshwater, strike off for the open seas, trek back to the place of their birth, but then they die before they can spawn. And this keeps happening for years.

when he was called in to the case. These fish spawn in freshwater, strike off for the open seas, trek back to the place of their birth, but then they die before they can spawn. And this keeps happening for years.

And we was a lot of people. Biologists, modelers, community scientists, environmental chemists. Some researchers rule out all the obvious culprits. Temperature, oxygen, known toxins. It's none of those. They need a lead.

And we was a lot of people. Biologists, modelers, community scientists, environmental chemists. Some researchers rule out all the obvious culprits. Temperature, oxygen, known toxins. It's none of those. They need a lead.

And we was a lot of people. Biologists, modelers, community scientists, environmental chemists. Some researchers rule out all the obvious culprits. Temperature, oxygen, known toxins. It's none of those. They need a lead.

They look through the data about where fish were dying and started running models.

They look through the data about where fish were dying and started running models.

They look through the data about where fish were dying and started running models.

Traffic. It's something to do with the roads, the urban runoff. So after years of work, the list of suspects is narrowing, but what part of the runoff? Enter another team of scientists from the University of Washington, including Zhen Yu. They're testing chemicals in runoff.

Traffic. It's something to do with the roads, the urban runoff. So after years of work, the list of suspects is narrowing, but what part of the runoff? Enter another team of scientists from the University of Washington, including Zhen Yu. They're testing chemicals in runoff.