Musk’s X Corp wins spat with former employees over arbitration fees

X Corp cannot be forced to cover the upfront fees of arbitrating a series of legal disputes by former employees who lost their jobs after Elon Musk acquired the social media company, a US appeals court ruled on Tuesday.

A panel of the New York-based 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals said an arbitration firm must decide if X should pay the fees or the company can split them with the seven former workers who claim X is attempting to derail their cases.

By opting to go through arbitration, the workers forfeited the ability to have federal courts resolve any disputes over fees, the court said.