Musk Defends $500 Million Twitter Severance Suit Win on Appeal

Elon Musk and X Corp. urged the Ninth Circuit to reject an appeal by laid-off Twitter Inc. employees, saying their case failed because the social media platform didn’t offer a severance plan governed by ERISA.

The workers haven’t identified any plan documents shared with Twitter employees or other communications that could establish the existence of a benefit plan governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, Musk and Twitter successor X told the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in a Thursday brief. This is fatal to their proposed class action, which seeks more than $500 million ...