Judge Denies Request of X, Former Employees to Delay Case Management Conference
U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar for Northern California in San Francisco denied the joint request of nine former Twitter petitioner-employees and the X platform to postpone their initial case management conference until after the court’s March 14 hearing on the…
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petitioners’ motion to compel arbitration and for preliminary injunction, said the judge’s text-only order Wednesday (docket 4:23-cv-03301). The Jan. 30 conference “will proceed as scheduled,” said the order. No case management statement is required, it said. The employees allege that Twitter and X refuse to arbitrate “despite having successfully blocked employees from pursuing their claims in court by compelling them to arbitrate their legal claims” (see 2401080001).