Class Action Lawsuit Against Twitter Blocked, Had No Legal Basis, Judge Rules
A judge ruled on Friday that several former Twitter employees who had filed a class action lawsuit against the social media giant must pursue individual arbitration instead.
The case involved five former Twitter employees involved in a class action against Twitter for not being given adequate notice before being laid off.
U.S. District judge James Donato ruled that the five former employees must pursue individual arbitration because of the arbitration agreement they had signed with Twitter.
The San Francisco judge did not rule “as warranted by developments in the case” whether the entire class action should be dismissed. The reason was that three other former Twitter employees were part of the class action lawsuit, and these three employees alleged that they had opted out of the Twitter arbitration agreement….