JURIST

MAY 19, 2022

Plaintiff Purushothaman Rajaram Tuesday filed a class action lawsuit in a California US District Court against Meta Platforms Inc., Facebook’s new parent company for employment discrimination.

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JURIST

OCTOBER 25, 2023

33 US states filed a lawsuit against Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company for social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram, on Tuesday over claims that the tech giant consciously tailored and marketed its services to exploit young users for the sake of profit.

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Law 360

MARCH 12, 2024

Meta Platforms Inc.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2024

TaxAct Inc. customers have asked a California federal judge to greenlight a settlement they say is worth more than $23 million and would resolve class claims accusing the tax preparation company of secretly sharing confidential taxpayer information with Meta Platforms Inc. and Google.

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Law 360

AUGUST 26, 2022

Facebook users told a California federal judge Friday they have reached a "settlement in principle" with parent company Meta Platforms Inc. to resolve multidistrict litigation stemming from the social media company's involvement in the Cambridge Analytica data harvesting scandal.

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Law 360

JULY 26, 2023

Meta Platforms Inc. told the Second Circuit a defunct photo app knew back in 2016 about changes the social networking company made to its Instagram feeds and waited too long to file an antitrust case alleging the changes drove it out of business.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Investors in Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta Platforms Inc. hit the social media giant with a proposed securities class action Monday, saying recently leaked internal documents show the company knew its products were harmful to the mental health of young people but hid that from shareholders.

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APRIL 28, 2023

A California federal judge on Friday consolidated proposed class actions alleging GoodRx Holdings, Google LLP, Meta Platforms Inc. and Criteo Corp.

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JURIST

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

A Kenyan court ruled Monday that Meta, Facebook’s parent company, can be sued in a case involving mental injury to a former Facebook moderator in the course of his employment. Justice Jacob Gakeri rejected Meta Platform Inc.’s

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Law 360

AUGUST 24, 2022

Circuit to support a contingent of state-level enforcers accusing Facebook's parent company, Meta Platforms Inc., of monopolizing personal social networking services through acquisitions and developer restrictions on its platform. Department of Justice is requesting time during oral arguments at the D.C.

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Law 360

JANUARY 17, 2023

is opposing an information request from consumers accusing Facebook parent company Meta Platforms of monopolizing social media markets, telling a California federal court the request is overbroad and irrelevant.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 21, 2022

A Dutch patent licensing company's legal crusade against yet another tech giant has come to an end in front of U.S. District Judge William Alsup, who flipped a favorable claim construction ruling the company won in Texas against Meta Platforms Inc. and torpedoed the lawsuit a few weeks ahead of a scheduled trial.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

A California federal judge on Friday said she's inclined to deny the bulk of Meta Platforms Inc.'s

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Circuit to revive their case accusing Facebook's parent company, Meta Platforms Inc., Federal enforcers during oral argument later this month will get a chance to support a contingent of state attorneys general asking the D.C. of monopolizing personal social networking services.

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Law 360

MAY 17, 2022

Facebook's new parent company was slammed with a putative class action lawsuit in California federal court Tuesday by a job applicant who is a U.S. citizen and accuses Meta Platforms Inc. of not hiring him in favor of certain visa holders it could pay less.

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Law 360

MARCH 15, 2022

Facebook parent company Meta Platforms Inc. urged the D.C. Circuit on Monday to affirm the dismissal of a complaint from state enforcers accusing it of violating antitrust law, arguing that a lower court was right to toss allegations about conduct that ended years ago.

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

federal court judge on Tuesday denied a request from Facebook parent company Meta Platforms Inc. for Federal Trade Commission documents related to reviews of the social media giant's acquisition of Instagram and WhatsApp, saying the materials are protected by the deliberative-process privilege.

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Law 360

MARCH 15, 2022

Meta Platforms Inc. called out its government and private antitrust antagonists in separate court discovery filings Monday, criticizing the Federal Trade Commission for trying to guard sensitive material from the company's rivals even as the agency argues that the Facebook successor has "almost no competitors."

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Law 360

MARCH 15, 2022

Ireland's data protection regulator has slapped Facebook's parent company Meta Platforms Inc. with a €17 million ($18.6 million) penalty after finding that the social media giant flouted the European Union's privacy law in connection with a series of data breach disclosures lodged in 2018.

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Law 360

JANUARY 13, 2023

Artificial intelligence company Voyager Labs Ltd. is scraping Facebook users' data and selling it to its clients, including the Los Angeles Police Department, in violation of the social network's terms, Facebook's parent Meta Platforms Inc. said in a California federal court complaint Thursday.

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Law 360

JANUARY 30, 2023

asked a California federal judge on Monday to dismiss consolidated securities litigation accusing the Facebook parent of misleading investors about the harmful effects of its platforms on users and its efforts to curb detrimental content, saying the complaint relies on leaked company documents that often lack "meaningful context."

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The Fashion Law

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A concept from science fiction that many people in the technology industry envision as the successor to today’s internet, the metaverse is only a vision at this point, but technology companies like Facebook are aiming to make it the setting for many online activities, including work, play, studying and shopping. Facebook, Inc.

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MARCH 1, 2023

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NOVEMBER 25, 2021

The metaverse is appearing more frequently in companies’ branding efforts, with companies like Nike launching an experience of its own within the Roblox metaverse, Balenciaga offering up products to wear in the Fortnite metaverse, and Tokens.com’s Metaverse Group subsidiary paid $2.4 Currently, Meta Platforms Inc.

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Law 360

MAY 28, 2024

A California federal judge has refused to toss Meta Platforms Inc.'s s suit accusing an artificial intelligence company of unlawfully scraping Facebook users' data and selling it to its clients, finding that Meta had identified a valid contract and that the court had jurisdiction over all the social media giant's claims.

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Law 360

APRIL 3, 2025

Snap and other tech companies must testify at the Federal Trade Commission's upcoming antitrust trial against Meta Platforms Inc. federal judge said current and former employees of Google, Apple, TikTok, X Corp.,

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Ireland's data protection authority has hit Facebook parent company Meta Platforms Inc. with a €91 million ($101.5 million) penalty for allegedly storing users' passwords without encryption or other necessary safeguards, the regulator announced Friday.

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JULY 25, 2024

Social media companies' ability to access and use their customers' information means they fall outside the scope of the Stored Communications Act, a California appellate court has ruled, rejecting Meta Platforms Inc. and Snap Inc.'s

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Law 360

MARCH 17, 2025

A pair of pension funds on Monday filed suit against Meta Platforms Inc. in Delaware's Court of Chancery, accusing the company of repeatedly violating data privacy laws, a pattern that the funds say led to the company being fined 1.2 billion ($1.3 billion) by European authorities.

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Meta Platforms Inc. Supreme Court should not be swayed by the social media company's attempt to shake off a proposed class action tied to the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, warning a high court ruling in favor of Facebook's parent company could give publicly traded companies "license to intentionally mislead investors."

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Law 360

JULY 5, 2024

Two H&R Block customers must arbitrate their claims that the company shared their private data with Meta Platforms Inc. and Google, a Pennsylvania federal court ruled, saying they agreed to arbitrate any disputes under the tax services provider's terms of agreement.

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Law 360

JANUARY 28, 2025

Meta Platforms Inc., Netflix and a proposed class of consumers claiming the companies cut an illegal deal ceding the video streaming market to Netflix can wait to continue litigating their case until a California federal judge mulls summary judgment over similar claims out west, an Illinois federal judge said Tuesday.

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Law 360

MAY 28, 2024

A California federal judge on Friday ruled that a man who was previously instructed to arbitrate his proposed class action alleging that H&R Block shared private data must also arbitrate claims against Google and Meta Platforms Inc.,

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Law 360

MARCH 4, 2024

A New York federal judge on Friday refused to toss a proposed class action against online education company Pearson Education Inc. alleging it illegally shared subscribers' personal information with Meta Platforms Inc.,

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

federal court its case accusing Meta Platforms Inc. of monopolizing the personal social networking market could be ready for trial later this year, despite the company saying the case is too complex to start that soon. The Federal Trade Commission told a D.C.

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Law 360

MARCH 14, 2024

An Ohio federal judge has ruled that the publisher of The Toledo Blade and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette can't duck a proposed privacy class action alleging that the newspapers shared the video-viewing history of their website users with Facebook's parent company, Meta Platforms Inc., without their permission.

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JANUARY 5, 2023

Filmmakers Want $700mm in Damages Filmmakers and descendants of Holocaust survivors allege Meta Platforms Inc.—previously —previously known as Facebook Inc.— In addition, they hope to recoup their attorney’s fees, expenses, costs, and disbursements.

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