Peter Taylor, 57, filed a lawsuit against the microblogging service last week in San Francisco Superior Court, alleging discrimination based on his age and disability.

A month prior to being fired, Taylor underwent surgery for kidney stones. When he asked for additional help due to the disability, the suit states that Twitter “refused to accommodate” and, in fact, assigned him more work.

Eventually, he was “terminated without warning,” according to the lawsuit, for failing to compete those extra assignments. The suit went on to say that Twitter replaced him with several employees in their 20s or 30s, and that his supervisor had made a “critical remark” about his age.

Taylor’s attorney argued that his client had “saved over 10 million dollars in the expansions of data centers” for Twitter.

The company did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fortune. But in response to SF Weekly, a Twitter TWTR spokesperson said that “the case is without merit” and the company will “vigorously defend ourselves against it.”

Plaintiffs’ representative Steve Berman said in a letter to Denise Cote, the presiding judge at the Southern District court of New York, that the two sides had reached “a binding agreement in principle” to settle the case.

The terms of the settlement are under seal, pending the court’s approval. Apple, which has denied breaking antitrust law, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

The plaintiffs, which include over 30 states and territories, had originally sought up to $840 million in damages from Apple. That figure was based on an estimate that Apple had actually overcharged buyers of e-books by $280 million.The court has the power to impose damages up to triple the actual amount.

Apple is currently appealing a ruling last year by Judge Cote that it conspired with five big publishing houses to fix prices for e-books, and the settlement is contingent on the result of that appeal, the Wall Street Journal reported.

The publishers involved–Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins, Penguin Group (USA) Inc, MacMillan and Simon & Schuster Inc–agreed last year to pay some$166 million to settle related antitrust charges.

The ruling Tuesday called the subpoena overly broad and targeted at information irrelevant to the state’s investigation.

Schneiderman is trying to uncover the identity of Airbnb hosts who are renting their apartments as hotel rooms in New York. It is illegal to rent a room for fewerthan 30 days in the state if the owner or permanent tenant is not present. There is also the issue of taxes. Hotels typically pay a 15% occupancy tax while Airbnb hosts usually don’t pay the fee.

In a statement released on Tuesday, Airbnb announced, “This decision is good news for New Yorkers who simply want to share their home and the city they love. Now, itstime for us to work together. Airbnb hosts and the attorney general share a common goal: we all want to make New York a better place to live, work and visit. We look forward to continuing to work with the attorney general’s office to make New York strongerfor everyone.”

The judge’s ruling isn’t necessarily the final word, however. The attorney general could return with a revised subpoena that may stand a better chance of withstanding a legal challenge.

But short-term, at least, the news is good for Airbnb, which risked a chilling effect on its nearly 225,000 New Yorkusers. Some of them had raised concerns thattheir personal information would be handed over to the state. In fact, apetition against the subpoena garnered over 230,000 signatures back in December.

“I think it’s a positive development,” Arun Sundararajan, a professor of information, operations, and management sciences at New York University, said about the judge’s ruling. “Through the subpoena, the focus had shifted fromthe real underlying issue that theres a misfit between the new way of providing accommodationand the old regulations.”

He added, “I think with this ruling, we can return the conversation to what’s a good way to come up with a good vision between the platform and the city governmentin regulating this space.”

Sundararajan also said that the decision will allow for partnership and dialogue between Airbnb and New York. “Cities like New York are perfect for this type of service,” he said. “I think its really important that this doesn’t end the conversation.”