This is relevant perhaps vaguely interesting as an exercise in establishing discussing character of the family at the center of this legal and ethical debacle. Matt’s personal investment vehicle, Audrey, hired nursing staff to care for his mother, Kathleen. It might be true that these staff members were hired in both Texas, and California but I am unable to confirm. Nevertheless, these staff members were fired by Audrey/Mullenwegs, and they have responded by filing wrongful termination, and employment law violation lawsuits against Audrey, and the Mullenweg family. The allegations are apparently that .. “employees subjected to racist, religiously motivated, and sexually explicit comments at work” This is an ongoing case being heard in California court.
Lawsuit information is here: https://unicourt.com/case/ca-sfc-asmahan-attayeb-vs-matthew-c-mullenweg-et-al-693508
The first step in this case seems to have been the nursing staff successfully defending themselves against Audrey invoking forced arbitration to avoid going to litigation, citing some perfunctory employment paperwork signatures. Audrey was unable to prove that the staff had, in fact, signed this paperwork. Some details here: https://calg.com/michael-von-loewenfeldt-obtains-victory-for-abused-employees-in-appeal-of-arbitration-denial/
I am not sure how the existence of this lawsuit has yet to surface in the midst of this WPE debacle.
Looking at the actual appellate court decision, it sure looks like either Mullenweg hired some lousy lawyers, he fraudulently applied the plaintiffs’ e-signatures to the arbitration agreements, or both. Because it sure looks like they only met about half of their burden of proving the validity of the e-signatures, and they made a procedural fuck-up at the trial court level that forfeited part of the argument they tried to make before the appeals court.
> This is relevant in establishing character of the family at the center of this legal and ethical debacle.
I don’t think so. This has nothing to do with the WordPress project as we know it. Leave people’s family issues out of it, IMO.
This is the kind of stuff I would expect from TMZ, just entertainment vultures.
Downvote me all you want, you people dredging up someones family issues like this are the lowest of low.
This began back in 2022 and is still ongoing with appearances scheduled in 2025.
Based on what I read, it was Matt’s mother who made the comments, not Matt himself
>The employees, home nurses, were verbally abused on a regular basis by the woman they cared for, eventually leading them to resign. When they sued for employment law violations, their former employer sought to compel arbitration by way of an arbitration clause they allegedly electronically signed when using an online payroll system.
Ahh. So the entire family is comprised of shitheads. Makes sense.