Strifling
Strifling v. Twitter Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 CAROLINA BERNAL STRIFLING, et al., Case No. 22-cv-07739-JST
Plaintiffs,
ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO
v. DISMISS
TWITTER INC., et al., Re: ECF No. 64 Defendants.
12 Before the Court is Defendant X Corp.’s1 (“X”) motion to dismiss. ECF No. 64. The Court will grant the motion. I. BACKGROUND In October 2022 Elon Musk acquired X, formerly known as Twitter. ECF No. 61 ¶ 17. Soon after the acquisition, X initiated a Reduction-in-Force (“RIF”) that affected approximately 2,621 of its 5,134 employees, most of whom were notified of their layoff on November 4, 2022. Id. ¶¶ 17, 19, 23. Plaintiffs allege these layoff decisions were made quickly by a small group of managers under Musk’s close supervision. Id. ¶ 20. Plaintiffs are two former X employees. Id. ¶¶ 6, 7. Plaintiff Carolina Bernal Strifling, a resident of Miami, Florida, worked at X as a Senior Client Partner Lead from June 2015 until November 2022. Id. ¶ 6. …