Cards Against Humanity took legal action against SpaceX the other day, declaring that Elon Musk’s company unlawfully took control of a plot of arrive at the US/Mexico border that the party-game business purchased in 2017 in an effort to stymie then-President Trump’s effort to construct a wall.

“As part of CAH’s 2017 holiday campaign, while Donald Trump was President, CAH created a supporter-funded campaign to take a stand against the building of a Border Wall,” stated the claim submitted in Cameron County District Court in Texas. Cards Against Humanity states it got $15 contributions from 150,000 individuals and utilized part of that cash to purchase “a plot of vacant land in Cameron County based upon CAH’s promise to ‘make it as time-consuming and expensive as possible for Trump to build his wall.'”

Cards Against Humanity states it cut the land “and maintained it in its natural state, marking the edge of the lot with a fence and a ‘No Trespassing’ sign.” Rather of Trump taking over the land, Cards Against Humanity states the parcel was “interfered with and invaded” by Musk’s area business. The claim consists of images that, according to Cards Against Humanity, reveal the land when it was very first acquired and after SpaceX building devices and products were put on the land.

This image was taken in 2017, according to Cards Against Humanity:

Cards Against Humanity states this photo of SpaceX devices and products on the exact same land was taken in 2024:

The claim looks for as much as $ 15 million to cover “the cost to restore and repair the Property, the diminution in the Property’s fair market value, the reasonable value of SpaceX’s use of the Property, the loss of goodwill, damages to CAH’s reputation, and other pecuniary loss and actual damages suffered by CAH.” The match likewise looks for compensatory damages.

Claim: SpaceX”never ever requested approval”

The suit stated that SpaceX “acquired many of the vacant lots along the road on which the Property is situated,” and began utilizing the Cards Against Humanity home as its own:

SpaceX and/or its specialists got in the Property and, after setting up posts to mark the residential or commercial property line, continued to overlook any difference based upon residential or commercial property ownership. The website was cleared of greenery, and the soil was compressed with gravel or other compound to permit SpaceX and its specialists to run and park its automobiles all over the Property. Generators were generated to run devices and lights while work was being carried out before and after daytime. A huge mound of gravel was unloaded onto the Property; the gravel is being kept and utilized for the building of structures by SpaceX’s professionals along the roadway.

Big pieces of building and construction devices and many construction-related cars are made use of and kept on the Property continually. And, obviously, employees exist carrying out building work and staging products and lorries for work to be carried out on other systems. In other words, SpaceX has actually dealt with the Property as its own for a minimum of 6 (6) months without regard for CAH’s residential or commercial property rights nor the security of anybody entering what has actually ended up being a worksite that is most likely governed by OSHA security requirements.

The claim stated that “SpaceX has never asked for permission to use the Property, much less for the egregious appropriation of the Property for its own profit-making purposes,” and “never reached out to CAH to explain or apologize for the damage caused to the Property and CAH’s ownership interest therein.”

We got in touch with SpaceX about the claim and will upgrade this post if it supplies an action.