Former Twitter staff, together with ex-CEO Parag Agrawal, ex-legal head Vijaya Gadde, and ex-CFO Ned Segal, have sued the social community over alleged unpaid authorized reimbursements.

The lawsuit, filed in Delaware Chancery Court docket, alleged that Twitter has to pay over $1 million to the previous executives for authorized payments they incurred whereas on the firm to answer requests by the Division of Justice and Securities and Alternate Fee.

“This motion seeks an expedited ruling requiring Defendant to adjust to its obligations to advance authorized charges and bills regarding ongoing litigation and investigations,” the lawsuit says.

The doc lists numerous authorized battles and authorities probes these execs have been concerned in through the years as defendants. The plaintiffs wrote to Twitter a number of instances demanding the reimbursement, however they only bought acknowledgment receipts in response, the doc added.

The submitting says that Twitter “breached the agreements [with employees] and contravened the bylaws” by not paying the previous staff.

After Elon Musk took over Twitter final October, he instantly fired Agrawal, Gadde, and Segal. At the moment Bloomberg reported that these execs had an exit package deal of greater than $100 million.

Twitter has turn out to be the topic of a number of lawsuits after Musk grew to become its proprietor. These embrace circumstances by former staff and contractors alleging the corporate fired them with out satisfactory discover and by a number of distributors who’re accusing the corporate of not paying payments on time.

The social media firm can also be concerned in a authorized battle in Germany, the place authorities are looking for to effective Twitter over failing to take away hate speech. Below the nation’s Community Enforcement Act (aka, NetzDG), firms may very well be fined as much as €50 million for violation of the foundations.

Aside from Gadde, Twitter has misplaced a number of authorized heads previously few months together with James Baker in December and Christian Dowell earlier this month.