Litigation & Arbitration
Aug. 8, 2023
ByteDance says forgery claims by ex-officer are ‘nonsense’
Yintao Yu “did not sign the purported agreement to arbitrate and even a casual inspection of the document fails to support its authenticity,” wrote plaintiff’s counsel Charles Jung of Nassiri & Jung LLP.
ByteDance Inc., the parent company of TikTok, accused a former executive of changing his story about whether he signed an arbitration agreement to have his case sent back to state court.
In two reply briefs filed Friday in federal court in San Francisco, ByteDance’s attorney addressed the recent claims by the plaintiff, Yintao Yu, that the arbitration agreement presented by the company was inauthentic, writing, “Yu’s insinuations of forger...
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