6 More School Districts Added to Social Media Liability MDL in Calif. District Court
The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation transferred six more cases in Social Media Adolescent Addiction/Personal Injury Products Liability Litigation to the U.S. District Court for Northern California, bringing to 117 the number of actions transferred since Oct. 6, said…
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conditional transfer order CTO-16 (docket 3047) Tuesday. The actions in the order involve questions of fact common to the actions previously transferred to the court; all such actions have been assigned to U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers. The negligence cases allege social media platforms Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube are fueling a mental health crisis among minors in the U.S. The six additional cases, all naming Meta, Google, ByteDance, and Snap as defendants, are Pennsylvania school districts: Crestwood, Hazleton Area, Hanover Area, North Pocono, Luzerne County and Wyoming County.