On Friday local time, Judge Katherine Saint John McCormick of the Delaware District Court in the USA issued an order allowing Musk and the Tesla Board of Directors, who approved the 2018 compensation plan, to appeal her ruling from January, allowing an appeal to the Delaware Supreme Court within 30 days. Earlier this month, McCormick decided to uphold her ruling from January of this year, stating that the Tesla Board of Directors was overly influenced by Musk when approving the compensation plan in 2018, and rejected the plan again. It was reported that the initial valuation of the compensation plan was $2.6 billion, which had risen to $56 billion by the time the judge canceled it.