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August 21, 2025
Social media platform X has agreed to settle a suit accusing it of owing workers $500 million in severance after Elon Musk took the reins of the company while it was still named Twitter, the two workers suing and the entity told the Ninth Circuit.
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December 17, 2024
A California federal judge refused Tuesday to allow X Corp. and Elon Musk to file under seal the company's corporate disclosure statement in a dispute over X's failure to adequately pay severance to former workers, saying there's no evidence that disclosing this information would harm the company.
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July 10, 2024
X Corp. and Elon Musk can escape claims they owe former employees $500 million in severance following the business mogul's purchase of the social platform formerly known as Twitter, a California federal judge ruled, saying the facts don't show that federal benefits law governed the payments workers received.
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April 17, 2024
A California federal judge paused discovery in a suit claiming X, formerly Twitter, owes $500 million in severance to the workers the company laid off after Elon Musk's takeover, saying the court should wait to sort out the company's dismissal bid.
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April 08, 2024
Two workers asked a California federal court to deny a request from X, formerly Twitter, to pause discovery in their suit alleging it stiffed employees on $500 million in severance pay when it conducted mass layoffs following Elon Musk's takeover, saying the move will create unnecessary delay.
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March 08, 2024
A recently filed suit from four executives alleging Elon Musk cheated them out of severance pay adds to the legal fallout that Musk and X Corp. are facing in the aftermath of the tech billionaire's $44 billion acquisition of the company formerly known as Twitter.
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February 13, 2024
The company formerly known as Twitter had a severance plan, workers laid off in the wake of ex-CEO Elon Musk's takeover told a California federal judge, fighting Musk and X's argument that the $500 million lawsuit should be tossed because no such plan existed.
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January 10, 2024
X and its billionaire ex-CEO Elon Musk asked a California federal court Tuesday to toss a proposed class action by laid-off workers seeking $500 million in severance, arguing the allegations are "fantastical" because there's never been a severance plan, and even if there were, Musk isn't a fiduciary.
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October 16, 2023
Former Twitter employees amended their proposed class action alleging Elon Musk and X Corp., formerly Twitter, owe at least $500 million in severance to those terminated after Musk purchased the company, adding details to claims that Musk is personally liable for denying these benefits.
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July 12, 2023
Twitter's former CEO Elon Musk, its successor company, and other individuals and entities owe at least $500 million in unpaid severance to workers who were laid off after Musk acquired the company in October, according to a proposed class action filed Wednesday in California federal court.