Law 360

JULY 13, 2022

Both Elon Musk and Twitter Inc. are breaking out the big guns in a Delaware Chancery Court fight that will determine whether the eccentric billionaire can back out of his promise to buy the social media company for $44 billion.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The Delaware Chancery Court on Tuesday granted a request from a special litigation committee of Twitter Inc.'s s board of directors for a six-month pause on a derivative lawsuit accusing the company of spending $3 billion to appease "aggressive" stockholders bent on CEO Jack Dorsey's ouster.

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MAY 27, 2022

The Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have announced a settlement that will require Twitter Inc. The settlement requires Twitter to notify all U.S. customers who joined Twitter before Sept. It now awaits approval by a federal court.

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MAY 9, 2025

Written by Mayela Celis, Maastricht University The hearing in the case of Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc. Perhaps controversially, counsel for Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc. Throughout the argument, the Twitter case was mentioned ( Twitter, Inc. Estados Unidos Mexicanos (Mexico) No. Taamneh , 598 U. 471 (2023)).

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Law 360

JULY 8, 2022

Twitter Inc. said Friday the company will sue billionaire Elon Musk after the Tesla Inc. CEO pulled out of his $44 billion deal to buy the company based on allegations the social media giant hadn't provided enough information on fake accounts on the website.

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

million payment Twitter Inc. made to a whistleblower who flagged purported security concerns at the social media company is yet another reason Musk should be allowed to terminate his $44 billion agreement to acquire Twitter. Elon Musk said Friday that a $7.8

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Law 360

MAY 26, 2022

Elon Musk and Twitter Inc. have been hit with a proposed shareholder class action alleging that the billionaire tried to create doubt about his planned deal to buy the social media company in order to do so at a lower price, causing Twitter's valuation to drop by $8 billion.

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JURIST

JULY 6, 2022

Twitter, Inc. Twitter contended: Multiple accounts and content included in the Blocking Orders are either overbroad and arbitrary or fail to provide notice to the originators of the content, and finally are disproportionate in several cases.

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Mondaq

JULY 15, 2022

Elon Musk recently announced that he is backing out of his US$44 billion deal to acquire Twitter, Inc., an agreement the company is seeking to enforce through the U.S.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Twitter Inc. must respond within two weeks to a shareholder's suit seeking access to inspect company documents in connection with Elon Musk's $44 billion offer to buy the social media platform, Delaware's Court of Chancery said late Wednesday.

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Law 360

APRIL 21, 2022

billion in financing to acquire Twitter and is considering launching a tender offer to the company's shareholders, even as its directors are trying to thwart a hostile takeover. CEO Elon Musk told regulators Thursday that he has lined up $46.5

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Law 360

JUNE 7, 2022

A Twitter stockholder sued the social media giant in Delaware's Court of Chancery Tuesday, demanding access to corporate documents to probe alleged misstatements about user data and possible board failures in connection with the company's pending $44 billion acquisition by Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk.

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JURIST

APRIL 18, 2022

Wikimedia Foundation Inc. Roskomnadzor, Russia’s internet regulator, earlier filed and sent to the court protocols for Wikimedia Foundation Inc. The company is facing a fine of up to 12 million rubles. under Article 13.41 Google had two protocols filed under Parts 2 and 4 of Article 13.41

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The Delaware Chancery Court on Friday refused Tesla CEO Elon Musk's request for a "blanket" waiver of the attorney-client privilege Twitter Inc. has cited in refusing to hand over documents in litigation over Musk's attempt to get out of his $44 billion offer to buy the company.

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Law 360

JULY 13, 2022

Elon Musk's recent withdrawal of his $44 billion offer to buy Twitter Inc. triggered a 62-page lawsuit in Delaware Chancery Court this week, laying out a detailed thread of events starting from when he first proposed to buy the company in April to his efforts to back out of the transaction in July.

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JURIST

JULY 8, 2024

The decision came within days of the BC Maritime Employers Association (BCMEA) filing their request for interim relief after the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 514 served a 72-hour strike notice to logistics company DP World (Canada) Inc. In response to the ruling, the BCMEA rescinded its lockout notice.

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The Estrin Report

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The last thing a company wants is to have to fill the role again after you’ve gotten bored and quit. As a career coach, I’ll occasionally work with a client who only applies to dream jobs or dream companies, and then gets frustrated when their search drags. Research the company. You Don’t Know Enough About the Company.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

European Commissioner for the Internal Market, Thierry Breton, Sunday called on Alphabet Inc. Facebook’s parent company Meta released an update explaining that its team monitoring the Ukraine situation is on high alert and it has restricted access to RT and Sputnik. Similarly, Twitter has restricted access in Russia.

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Law 360

APRIL 1, 2024

A former employee at Block Inc., which was founded by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, alleges the company fired her in retaliation for two posts she made on X, formerly known as Twitter, according to a suit filed in Missouri state court with financial backing from Elon Musk's X Corp.

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Law 360

APRIL 25, 2023

Bottini & Bottini Inc. and Cotchett Pitre & McCarthy LLP will represent a proposed class of Twitter investors who allege that purportedly mercurial behavior by Elon Musk, the company's owner since October, was actually a scheme to push down trading prices for the company's shares in the leadup to Musk's acquisition of the company.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Social media powerhouse Twitter Inc. will drop off the New York Stock Exchange before markets open Friday if Elon Musk makes good on his hotly contested, $44 billion deal to buy the company by a court-set deadline, market records show.

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Law 360

AUGUST 22, 2022

Twitter Inc. founder Jack Dorsey was swept up Monday in the tidal wave of subpoenas triggered by Elon Musk's attempted breakout from a $44 billion offer to buy the social media company, with Delaware's Court of Chancery now planning an argument on a separate discovery dispute.

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Fordham Law News

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

1] Despite its perceived innocence, this subtle tweet was the start of an ongoing conflict over Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter, Inc. That same day, April 4, 2022, Musk, CEO of Tesla, Inc. percent of Twitter’s stock. [2] 4] Musk would purchase Twitter in its entirety for $54.20 percent of Twitter’s stock. [2]

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The Estrin Report

OCTOBER 15, 2021

For over 20 years, as a former senior legal officer for a Fortune 50 company, Sheila Murphy successfully developed, coached, and transformed talent in corporate America, and law firms. My AHA moment came when the company promoted a peer whose legal skills were lacking. By the time my peer left the company, he had reported to me.

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The Estrin Report

MAY 30, 2021

The company was seeking a Director/Corporate Secretary. Today I was told I had misrepresented my position at [Acme Company] and was asked to explain the discrepancy, and was then asked for copies of my two degrees from undergrad and law school and verification that I am an active member of the Bar in good standing.

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Mondaq

JUNE 15, 2022

In light of Elon Musk's recent offer to buy Twitter, Inc. Twitter") there has been a resurgence in the desire to develop decentralized social media platforms. In efforts to avoid being at the whim of a single company.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 13, 2024

Though some drug companies have been reluctant to delist certain patents from the Orange Book, the District Court of New Jersey just ordered Teva to delist 5 of its patents that it deemed improperly listed. Twitter), the FTC is taking credit for that. It seems like all that work is paying off. And on X (R.I.P. of Trinko, LLP , 540 U.S.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 7, 2023

[This guest post is by Maya Markovich , executive director of the Justice Technology Association, an organization formed to support companies in the justice tech sector. Rasa’s founder and CEO, Noella Sudbury , was featured on the cover of Utah Business Magazine , and named as one of the 200 most dynamic female founders in Inc.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 27, 2022

The targeted firms include Meta Platforms Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s s Google, Snap Inc., Twitter Inc. and Discord Inc. Law enforcement and the technology companies are still trying to assess the scope of the problem, which has become more prevalent in recent months.

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Law 360

AUGUST 11, 2022

Twitter Inc. asked Delaware's chancellor late Thursday to reject an Elon Musk demand for documents from 22 more of the social media company's record custodians, atop 41 already drawn into its battle to force Musk's closing on a $44 billion take-private deal.

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Twitter Inc.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Social media and Internet companies now actively respond to calls from government officials to silence those with opposing views. Alphabet Inc.’s s Google and Apple Inc. This is not the first such example of these companies carrying out the censorship directives from political figures. There is an alternative.

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Patently O

JUNE 1, 2022

” NetChoice is a lobbying organization controlled by large media companies, including Google, Facebook, TikTok, Amazon & Twitter. Those companies argue that HB20 impinges upon their Constitutionally protected free speech rights. 74 (1980) and Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. See PruneYard Shopping Center v.

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Patently O

JULY 31, 2024

This construct was flipped by the Supreme Court’s 2006 decision in eBay Inc. There are obviously many large companies (especially in the tech area) benefiting from eBay by avoiding opportunistic “holdup” and “holdouts.” Twitter, Inc. MercExchange, L.L.C. , 16-cv-00764-N (N.D. JUne 22, 2024).

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The Estrin Report

MAY 30, 2021

The company was seeking a Director/Corporate Secretary. Today I was told I had misrepresented my position at [Acme Company] and was asked to explain the discrepancy, and was then asked for copies of my two degrees from undergrad and law school and verification that I am an active member of the Bar in good standing.

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JonathanTurley

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Myriad Genetics, Inc. We previously discussed that case in which the Court unanimously ruled against the Utah company on a patent claim. The company was trying to stop other companies from offering the test at a lower cost. We do not need companies to protect us from harmful or “misleading” thoughts.

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JonathanTurley

JUNE 21, 2023

Mark Loizeaux, president and owner of Phoenix, Maryland-based Controlled Demolition Inc., once said that the success of the company is due to their effort to “identify the sensitivity of each of the neighbors to the unavoidable byproducts.” You can follow him on Twitter @JonathanTurley.

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