By Lamisha Maruf, CNN
NEW YORK (CNN) — In 2017, adult party game Cards Against Humanity bought land on the US-Mexico border in an attempt to interfere with former President Donald Trump’s border wall construction. Now the company is facing a lawsuit over the property after another controversial billionaire allegedly moved onto it without permission.
Cards Against Humanity LLC, the Chicago-based publisher of the popular card game, filed a $15 million civil lawsuit against Elon Musk’s SpaceX on Thursday, alleging trespass on property in Cameron County, Texas.
The Cards Against Humanity property was vacant when it was purchased, but the lawsuit alleges that SpaceX began encroaching on the property, which is just three miles from the company’s Starbase launch facility. Photos in the lawsuit show construction sites and equipment, and the lawsuit alleges that “SpaceX never sought permission to use the property, let alone misappropriated it for its own commercial purposes.”
According to the lawsuit, SpaceX contractors entered the site, dumped tons of gravel and brought in generators to run equipment and lights.
Cards Against Humanity LLC said in 2017 that the crowdfunded plan aimed to “make building the wall as slow and expensive as possible.”
SpaceX began construction in the area in 2014. In July, Musk said at the event that SpaceX would move its headquarters from Hawthorne, California, to Starbase, Texas, a company town that’s still under construction.
Both Musk and Trump appear in the current events card game.
The lawsuit argued that CAH has tarnished its reputation among its supporters by allowing Musk’s company to operate illegally on the land.
“CAH’s supporters have developed an unprecedented loyalty and expect the company to behave in a way that is consistent with its image as politically active, especially when it comes to the unfair tactics of governments and wealthy corporations against ordinary citizens across the country and around the world,” the lawsuit states.
SpaceX did not respond to CNN’s request for comment.
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