Ex-Twitter Leaders’ Severance Spat With Musk to Get New Judge

A California federal district court judge has recused himself from hearing a lawsuit four former Twitter Inc. executives brought against Elon Musk for allegedly refusing to pay them severance.

Judge Gilliam Haywood said he is “disqualified” from the case led by Parag Agrawal, who served as the chief executive officer of the social media site that Musk renamed X when he took over as owner in 2022.

Haywood, who was appointed to the US District Court for the Northern District of California by President Barack Obama, didn’t give a specific reason in his March 8 order for his decision to ...