Cornet
Cornet v. Twitter, Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 5 EMMANUEL CORNET, et al., Case No. 3:22-cv-06857-JD
Plaintiffs,
ORDER RE TRANSFER
v.
TWITTER, INC., Defendant.
In November 2022, after a buyout by Elon Musk, defendant Twitter, Inc., laid off a substantial portion of its workforce. Plaintiffs sued Twitter on behalf of themselves and a putative class of other Twitter employees alleging that the layoffs violated federal and state laws. The second amended complaint (SAC), which is the operative complaint, states that the employees are third-party beneficiaries of the merger agreement for the buyout between Musk and Twitter. See Dkt. No. 40 at 12; Dkt. Nos. 46-1, 46-2. Plaintiffs allege in Count II that Twitter is liable for breach of contract for breaking its commitment in the merger agreement that, for the one-year period following the acquisition, it “would continue to provide its employees who were terminated with severance packages that were no less favorable than the severance packages that were provided to…