Tesla CEO Elon Musk lost his bid to get his 2018 CEO pay package reinstated on Monday when a Delaware judge upheld her prior ruling that the compensation plan was improperly granted.The package, worth about $56 billion,

The ruling by the judge follows her January decision that called the pay package excessive and rescinded it, surprising investors.

Tesla cannot give Elon Musk a $56 billion compensation package despite a vote in support of the CEO's pay deal by the company's shareholders, a Delaware judge ruled on Monday. Musk told a special committee of the Tesla board soon after a judge voided his compensation in January that he wanted a similar-sized replacement package,