The secretive nature of Elon Musk’s SpaceX keeps colliding with Texas open records laws at the new company town of Starbase. Since incorporating, the space city has filed at least four lawsuits against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton over his office’s rulings on media requests for public information.
The most recent came last week when Starbase attorneys sued Paxton in state District Court in Travis County over his ruling that the city must release some information it wants to keep private.
The flurry of lawsuits by the city shows its growing pains as it wrestles with being a public entity loomed over by the space company that’s estimated to be worth as much as $800 billion…