Twitter Wants Laid-Off Workers’ Suit Moved to Delaware or Tossed

Twitter Inc. workers who lost their jobs during new CEO Elon Musk‘s mass layoffs should have to litigate their claims in Delaware or not at all, the company told a federal judge in California.

The workers seek severance payments as laid out in the merger agreement that facilitated Musk’s $44 billion takeover. That agreement also includes an exclusive venue and forum-selection provision directing all related suits to Delaware, and the workers can’t enforce some provisions and “ignore” others, Twitter said in a motion filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California.

The social media company ...