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...That adds up to a lot of potential plaintiffs....
...Musk’s “purported termination of plaintiffs “for cause” was a sham designed to deprive plaintiffs of their severance benefits”, the filing said....
.... . . with cleaning up the mess,” the plaintiffs allege....
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...In the US, plaintiffs’ lawyers often take most or all of their fees from a portion of a settlement or judgment, a so-called contingency arrangement....
...“Sometimes it is unclear what is driving a litigation, and only by reading between the lines of a complaint can one attempt to surmise a plaintiff’s true purpose....
...Musk’s “purported termination of Plaintiffs ‘for cause’ was a sham designed to deprive Plaintiffs of their severance benefits”, the filing said. A representative for X declined to comment....
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...Barclays concluded a realistic worst-case scenario was a few thousand plaintiffs settling in “the high hundreds of thousands of dollars per case”....
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...So Plaintiffs lose on all their claims,” wrote Christopher Lopez, US bankruptcy judge for Texas’s southern district, in his ruling....
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