3 More Suits Added to Social Media MDL in Northern Calif.; Case Total Reaches 103
Two Kentucky school districts and the city of Providence, Rhode Island, in tag-along actions, joined the Social Media Adolescent Addiction/Personal Injury Products Liability Litigation, said a Tuesday conditional transfer order, CTO-10 (docket MDL 3047), from the U.S. Judicial Panel on…
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Multidistrict Litigation. The lawsuits brought by the Providence and Kentucky’s Montgomery County Board of Education and McLean County School District involve questions of fact common to the other cases in the MDL, which alleges social media platforms Facebook, Instagram, Snap, TikTok and YouTube are fueling a mental health crisis among minors in the U.S. Since October, when the panel transferred 20 civil actions to the U.S. District Court for Northern California in Oakland, 83 more actions have transferred to the court and been assigned to U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, the order said.