Musk Deposition Sought by Ex-Twitter Worker in Mass Layoff Suit

A former Twitter Inc. employee asked a federal judge to order Elon Musk to sit for a seven-hour deposition to answer questions about his role in a mass layoff at the social media platform now known as X.

Musk has “first-hand, non-redundant, knowledge of the relevant facts” at the heart of several suits alleging violations of the federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, or WARN, Act and state variations, according to a discovery letter one laid-off employee filed Wednesday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California.

An attorney for Twitter—now part of Musk’s X Corp., which ...