arbitrate a stock-related dispute with 91 current and former staffers and urged Delaware Chancery Court to declare that state the proper forum. Equating "quintessential stockholder claims" with employment relationship issues that require arbitration is an "unreasonable reading" of the employment agreement, an attorney for BuzzFeed argued in the company's motion for summary judgment. "We do not believe that these claims are properly brought under the employment agreement," BuzzFeed's attorney Mary Eaton of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP told the court. "These are fundamentally classic stockholder claims. It's. . .
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