Former Ethereum Foundation Employee Sues Foundation and Vitalik Buterin

on November 9, according to a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado, Kayleen Fulton, former Head of Protocol Support at the Ethereum Foundation, sued on November 4 the foundation’s affiliated entities, Co-Executive Director Bastian Aue, and Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, among others.

The complaint states that Fulton disclosed her cancer diagnosis in writing to the foundation’s leadership on March 24, and the next day organized with a colleague a petition signed by 53 employees opposing a requirement to acknowledge an internal document containing a suicide pledge; she was terminated alongside another organizer on April 6. She is bringing claims of disability discrimination, retaliation, and interference with family medical leave rights. The above constitutes allegations made by the plaintiff.