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Musk loses bid to dismiss ex-Twitter CEO’s severance lawsuit

A judge ruled that former chief executive officer Parag Agrawal and other high-ranking officers can proceed with claims that Musk terminated them as he was closing the deal to cheat them out of severance pay before they could submit resignation letters. Musk has been fighting legal claims for back pay by thousands of Twitter staff he laid off when he acquired the social media company for $44 billion two years ago and rebranded it as X Corp.