Meta Files Notice of Potential Tag-Along Action in Social Media MDL
Meta filed a notice of potential tag-along action Thursday to Social Media Adolescent Addiction/Personal Injury Products Liability Litigation before the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, said a Thursday filing (docket 4:22-md-3047). Prince George’s County Board of Education v. Meta…
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Platforms (docket 8:23 -cv1282) “shares common questions of fact and law” with other actions transferred to the MDL, said Meta. Some 14 related cases were added to the MDL case Wednesday and Thursday under U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in U.S. District Court for Northern California in Oakland. The Maryland school district’s Tuesday complaint in U.S. District Court for Maryland in Greenbelt alleges social media platforms Facebook, Instagram, Snap, TikTok and YouTube created a “youth mental health crisis” in the U.S. and claims public nuisance, negligence and gross negligence against the parent companies. Over 300 similar school district cases, in various states of transfer, comprise the member list of the MDL.