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From TFA:

"Tesla shareholder Richard Tornetta filed the lawsuit five years ago, ..."

So the shareholder condidered it unfair from the beginning, it just took this long to get a judge to agree.

"... accusing the company’s chief executive of improperly dictating negotiations around the compensation package and claimed that the board acted without independence."

If Musk is promising the moon to himself, that would indeed seem a bit unfair.

"Tornetta’s lawyers argued the Tesla board never told shareholders that the goals were easier to achieve than the company was acknowledging and that internal projections showed Musk was quickly going to qualify for large portions of the pay package."

Especially if he did expect to hit all the targets and just wanted to collect some easy money on the way.