A California judge handed Elon Musk a victory in a lawsuit filed over the mass firing of staffers at Twitter after he took over the social media platform in October 2022.
Mr. Musk and X Corp. (Twitter was rebranded as X in July 2023) were accused of violating provisions of the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) by allegedly misleading employees about whether he'd honor a severance plan “at least as favorable” as one developed by prior Twitter management, leading some staff members to stay at the company longer than they otherwise would have and getting less severance pay than they expected when they were let go.
