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> Apparently Twitter’s lawyers hasn’t met with the other law firms that have brought arbitration claims yet. But, it seems they’re freaked out by the prospect o
by WJW 3y ago
> Apparently Twitter’s lawyers hasn’t met with the other law firms that have brought arbitration claims yet. But, it seems they’re freaked out by the prospect of having to handle 1,848 separate discovery efforts.
Separate but largely identical discovery efforts, surely? That sounds like a job for one of the leftover devs (who by now must all be extremely hardcore rockstars sleeping in the office, since Elon fired everyone else) to generate 1848 separate zip files of documentation.
- Waterluvian 3y agoI thought that for this reason any party can ask for it to become a class action, not just the complainants.
- SketchySeaBeast 3y agoBased upon one of the letters sent by one of the law firms to Twitter[1] it seems that the arbitration agreement requires filing a separate individual arbitration agreement? "with each employee filing a separate individual agreement, as required by the terms of your arbitration agreement"? It seems like Twitter's own arbitration terms is going to be the thing that hurts them here? [1] https://twitter.com/AkivaMCohen/status/1598487532764798983/photo/1 https://twitter.com/AkivaMCohen/status/1598487532764798983/p...
- papercrane 3y agoIf these were before a court then Twitter could try and have them combined into a class action suit. Twitter's contracts with these employees included arbitration clauses though. Normally companies prefer this because it heads off class action suits, but here Twitter has been hoist with his own petard. Twitter demanded the arbitration and now is paying the cost for that.
- Waterluvian 3y agoHah. That’s amazing. Arbitration clauses need to be punished.
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- seanhunter 3y agoHere are some details of group, class and collective arbitration proceedings in the US https://www.nortonrosefulbright.com/en/knowledge/publications/3d52c376/group-class-and-collective-arbitration https://www.nortonrosefulbright.com/en/knowledge/publication... Bottom line is because arbitration is a bilateral process between the parties to a contract, both sides would need to agree to turn it into a collective arbitration. A class arbitration would be if one representative of the class took action on behalf of everyone (who didn't opt out) of that class.
- seanhunter 3y agoThat's not how discovery works. Every person will ask for different things and the arbiter(s) may grant different things in different cases.
- binarymax 3y agoIs this sarcasm?
- WJW 3y agoYes
- fundad 3y agoThey just don’t want to pay. So they speak to the press to make a cover excuse of being “too busy” so they can delay until bankruptcy.