Agrawal et al v. Musk et al

  1. February 26, 2025

    Ex-Twitter Execs Demand Docs In $200M Severance Fight

    Elon Musk and his social media platform X are trying to dodge perfectly reasonable discovery requests tackling claims that the billionaire fired four former company executives after he bought the social media platform to avoid several benefits obligations, the workers told a California federal court.

  2. November 04, 2024

    Ex-Twitter Execs Can Proceed With Severance Claim

    Elon Musk and X Corp. can't escape four former executives' claim that Musk fired them to prevent them from receiving severance benefits after he struck the deal to buy the company formerly known as Twitter, a California federal judge ruled while also lifting a stay on discovery.

  3. October 25, 2024

    No Reason To Open Discovery, X, Musk Say In Severance Fight

    Elon Musk and X Corp. have urged a California federal court not to acquiesce to former executives' request to open discovery in their severance benefits lawsuit, saying the workers can't show they've been harmed by the court's decision to pause discovery until after ruling on a dismissal motion.

  4. March 08, 2024

    4 Severance Cases Stemming From Musk's X Corp. Takeover

    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.

  5. March 06, 2024

    How Musk Unfolded His Plot To Fire Twitter CLO, Other Execs

    Billionaire Elon Musk so disliked Twitter Inc. chief legal officer Vijaya Gadde that he tried to have her fired six months before he took control of the company, then he tweeted a meme about Twitter having left-wing bias and featuring her face, before he hatched a devious plot to try and block her and three other executives from their promised severance packages.

  6. March 04, 2024

    Musk Fired Twitter Execs To Avoid $200M Bill, Suit Says

    Elon Musk fired four top Twitter executives just minutes after he closed on his deal to buy the company, now called X Corp., to avoid paying them $200 million in severance benefits, they told a California federal court Monday.