Judge Denies Motion of Ex-Twitter Employees to Compel Their Claims to Arbitration

U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar for Northern California in Oakland denied without prejudice the motion of nine former Twitter employees to compel their claims against Twitter and X to arbitration and for preliminary injunctive relief, said his signed order Monday (docket 4:23-cv-03301). The court finds merit to Twitter’s argument in opposition to the motion to compel arbitration, that the court shouldn’t rule on the motion until after class certification has been decided, said the order. The parties will meet and confer on a case schedule, including a briefing schedule for the plaintiffs’ motion for class certification, due within 14 days, it said. The plaintiffs alternatively may elect to dismiss the class claims and proceed only on behalf of the named plaintiffs, it said. Assuming they intend to move for class certification, the court “would be amenable to hearing that motion and a motion to compel arbitration on the same date,” it said. The court would also be amenable “to having the parties submit the motion to compel arbitration on the papers already submitted in lieu of filing new briefing,” it said.