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Former Twitter Execs Sue Elon Musk for Over $128M in Severance
Mar 5 2024 // Four former top Twitter executives, including former CEO Parag Agrawal, have sued Elon Musk for over $128 million in combined unpaid severance, according to a lawsuit filed on Monday. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in...
Judge Orders Elon Musk to Testify in SEC’s Twitter Probe
Feb 12 2024 // A federal judge ordered Elon Musk to testify again in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s probe of his $44 billion takeover of Twitter, giving the regulator and the billionaire a week to agree on a date and...
Twitter Violated Contract by Failing to Pay Millions in Bonuses, Judge Rules
Dec 28 2023 // Twitter violated contracts by failing to pay millions of dollars in bonuses that the social media company, now called X Corp, had promised its employees, a federal judge ruled on Friday. Mark Schobinger, who was...
Musk Can’t Escape Investor Suit Over Flip-Flop on Twitter Buyout
Dec 12 2023 // Elon Musk must face a Twitter investor lawsuit that accuses him of fueling uncertainty about his proposed buyout in an effort to drive down the social media platform’s stock price, a California federal judge...
Ex-Twitter Exec Claims in Lawsuit He Was Fired for Raising Security Concerns
Dec 7 2023 // A former executive at Twitter Inc, now called X Corp, has filed a lawsuit claiming he was fired after Elon Musk acquired the company for objecting to budget cuts that would prevent the company from complying with a U.S....
Elon Musk Asks Court to Reject SEC’s Bid to Make Him Testify in Twitter Probe
Nov 6 2023 // Elon Musk asked a federal judge on Nov. 2 not to force him to testify in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s probe into his $44 billion takeover of social media site Twitter. Musk filed the objections in...
SEC Probes Twitter Security Lapse Before Elon Musk Took Over
Oct 12 2023 // The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating how Twitter Inc. managed a 2018 security lapse that exposed personal user information before billionaire Elon Musk bought the social media platform last year. The...
SEC Tries to Force Musk to Testify in Twitter Takeover Probe
Oct 6 2023 // Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, is being sued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which is trying to compel him to testify as part of a probe into his $44 billion takeover of social media giant...
Elon Musk Must Face Fraud Lawsuit for Disclosing Twitter Stake Late
Oct 4 2023 // Elon Musk was ordered by a U.S. judge to face most of a lawsuit claiming he defrauded former Twitter shareholders last year by waiting too long to disclose that he had invested in the social media company, which he later...
X, Musk Seek Dismissal of Lawsuit Over Ex-Twitter Workers’ Severance Pay
Aug 2 2023 // X Corp, the social media company formerly known as Twitter, and owner Elon Musk have asked a Delaware federal judge to dismiss one of several lawsuits claiming they failed to pay promised severance to laid-off...
Twitter Again Sued Over Severance Pay, Bias During Layoffs
Jul 19 2023 // Twitter Inc. on Tuesday was hit with the second lawsuit this month to claim that it owes at least $500 million in severance pay to ex-workers, the latest in a series of cases arising from Elon Musk’s acquisition of...
Twitter Owes Ex-Employees $500M in Severance, Lawsuit Claims
Jul 13 2023 // Twitter Inc on Wednesday was hit with a lawsuit accusing it of refusing to pay at least $500 million in promised severance to thousands of employees who were laid off after Elon Musk acquired the company. Courtney...
Musk Claims Lawyers Overbilled in Fight to Make Him Buy Twitter
Jul 10 2023 // Elon Musk sued the law firm that led the court fight to make him complete his takeover of Twitter, saying it took advantage of the company while running up a $90 million bill. Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz, among the...
Twitter Settles Retaliation Claim Over Return to Office Protest
Jul 5 2023 // Twitter has settled with a former employee who US labor board prosecutors concluded was illegally punished for protesting its return-to-office mandate. Software engineer Alexis Camacho claimed the company put them on...
Twitter Accused of Ducking a Fight Over Musk’s Mass Layoffs
Jul 5 2023 // Twitter Inc. is refusing to engage in arbitration with ex-employees who were fired when Elon Musk took over the company after pushing them to use that process to resolve claims that they weren’t paid, didn’t...
Twitter Employees Sue Company, Claiming It Refuses to Pay 2022 Bonuses
Jun 21 2023 // Twitter Inc. employees sued the social media company claiming it refuses to pay 2022 bonuses, despite promises that they would be paid out at 50% of their target amounts. Twitter has a cash performance bonus plan that is...
Twitter Sued by Music Firms Over Violating Copyrights, At Up to $150,000 a Work
Jun 15 2023 // The National Music Publishers’ Association sued Twitter Inc. Wednesday, alleging it violates the copyright of songwriters by using their music on its platform without permission. Twitter is one of the only major...
Union Cleaning Workers in New York City Sue Twitter Over Back Pay
Jun 1 2023 // Eleven former Twitter cleaning workers at its New York City offices sued the company Tuesday, saying they are owed hundreds of thousands of dollars in back pay and damages after they were abruptly fired in December. The...
Judge Throws Out Shareholder Lawsuit Against Elon Musk Over Twitter Buyout
May 23 2023 // A judge dismissed a proposed class-action lawsuit against Elon Musk that claimed he cheated Twitter shareholders several times last year in the course of buying the social media company for $44 billion. In a decision on...
The Supreme Court Handed Google and Twitter a New Line of Defense
May 19 2023 // The US Supreme Court handed social media companies a new line of defense as they face an increasing number of lawsuits alleging their algorithms have harmed users — whether by addicting children or selling suicide...
