Meta Asks Court to Drop It From Privacy Lawsuit, Relate to Consolidated Action
Meta should be removed from plaintiff “Jane Doe’s” privacy class action involving its Pixel tracking tool because the allegations and claims in the case “are fully covered by and subsumed within” claims asserted in the consolidated Meta Pixel Healthcare Litigation…
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(docket 3:22-cv-03580), said the company’s motion to sever claims (docket 3:23-cv-00059) Thursday in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco. Plaintiff alleges Hey Favor sent users’ health and prescription information to Meta via the tech company’s Pixel software code so it could measure users’ online health activities. Consolidating Jane Doe’s case with the consolidated action would conserve resources and avoid conflicting results to relate and consolidate Doe’s claims against Meta with the consolidated healthcare action, it said. On Friday, Meta filed a conditional joint administrative motion to consider whether the claims against it in Jane Doe v. Hey Favor, filed in January in the same district, should be related to the consolidated action. The Friday motion is conditioned on the court granting Meta's motion to sever claims against it in Jane Doe.