{"id":13474,"date":"2025-10-21T06:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T06:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/13474\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T06:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T06:27:09","slug":"card-against-humanity-settles-texas-lawsuit-against-elon-musks-spacex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/13474\/","title":{"rendered":"Card Against Humanity settles Texas lawsuit against Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cards Against Humanity, the satirical party game, has settled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tpr.org\/news\/2024-09-22\/cards-against-humanity-sues-elon-musks-spacex-for-using-its-land-along-the-border\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">its trespassing lawsuit<\/a> against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kut.org\/tags\/elon-musk\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Elon Musk<\/a>\u2019s rocket company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kut.org\/tags\/spacex\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SpaceX<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Court records show the lawsuit was dropped last month. In an email to fans sent Monday, the game company did not disclose the terms of settlement but said SpaceX \u201cadmitted on the record\u201d to dumping trash on land it bought near Musk\u2019s rocket launch site in South Texas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSoon, the land will be returned to its natural state: no space garbage, and still completely free of pointless [expletive] border walls,\u201d the email read.<\/p>\n<p>Cards Against Humanity&#8217;s spokesperson Maria Ranahan\u00a0<br \/>told The Texas Newsroom a trial would have cost more than what the company was likely to win from SpaceX. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Under Texas law, even if we had won at trial (and we would have, given their admission to trespassing), we likely wouldn\u2019t be able to recoup our legal fees,&#8221; she said in response to questions. &#8220;The upside is that we\u2019re able to work with a local landscaping company to restore the land to its natural state.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Cards Against Humanity bought the land along the Rio Grande <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/11\/15\/us\/cards-against-humanity-land-grab-trnd\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">with fan donations<\/a> to block construction of the border wall. The land is just minutes from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kut.org\/politics\/2025-05-20\/elon-musk-texas-spacex-starbase-city-official-election-certification\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Starbase<\/a>, SpaceX\u2019s massive rocket testing and launch site near Brownsville.<\/p>\n<p>In its lawsuit, filed in September of last year, Cards Against Humanity alleged SpaceX\u2019s employees entered the site without approval and dumped trash there. It sought $15 million in damages. SpaceX argued the game company did not have standing to sue.<\/p>\n<p>In its message to fans on Monday, Cards Against Humanity said it had not won any money from SpaceX, which it had <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CAH\/status\/1837178036673990830?lang=en\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">promised to give back to fans<\/a> if it had prevailed in court. It did announce the release of a special Musk-themed mini pack of its card game to mark the settlement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile we can\u2019t give you what you really wanted \u2013\u2013 cash money from Elon Musk \u2013\u2013 we\u2019re going to make it up to you, our best, sexiest customers\u2026with comedy!\u201d the email added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cards Against Humanity, the satirical party game, has settled its trespassing lawsuit against Elon Musk\u2019s rocket company SpaceX.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10906,11193,8892,11194,2223,27,29,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-13474","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-cards-against-humanity","9":"tag-elon","10":"tag-elon-musk","11":"tag-musk","12":"tag-spacex","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-texas-headlines","15":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}