Ex-Twitter Officer Settles Severance Suit Against Musk, X (1)

Twitter Inc.'s former chief marketing officer agreed to dismiss her lawsuit against Elon Musk and X Corp. claiming her termination was wrongly deemed as being for cause in order to deny her a hefty severance payout.

The dismissal notice, filed April 10 in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, comes two weeks after the parties announced they’d reached a settlement and requested an extension of case deadlines. It resolves a lawsuit by Leslie Berland, who served as Twitter’s CMO for nearly seven years and said she was wrongly denied about $20 million in severance after ...