Last but not least, and notwithstanding the last-minute settlement discussed above, the court tackled the plaintiffs' allegations that the Tesla board was not disinterested and independent in their evaluation of the deal. Of the seven Tesla directors, two recused themselves (Elon Musk and Antonio Gracias), and a third, Kimbal Musk, was conceded by Tesla to be conflicted. As to the others, Vice Chancellor Slights provided a jurisprudential counterpoint to Vice Chancellor Glasscock's "friends with benefits" analysis in the recent Oracle case, declaring that mere compensation and asserted associations among board members amount to little more than "threadbare" factual assertions of director conflict that raise no material questions of facts. Nevertheless, important questions of fact remain regarding directorial conflicts: So where does all of this leave us?