Court Shifts Time of Prehearing Conference in FTC v. Meta

Monday’s prehearing conference in the FTC’s lawsuit to block Meta’s Within Unlimited buy on antitrust grounds was moved to 10 a.m. PST from 9:30 a.m., said a text-only clerk’s order entered Wednesday (docket 5:22-cv-04325) at the U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose. Both sides requested the conference in a joint stipulation Nov. 15. The FTC and Meta tried to reach agreement on procedural and logistical issues “to facilitate the efficient presentation of evidence at the preliminary injunction hearing” scheduled to begin Dec. 8, said the stipulation. They said they agreed there are “specific issues regarding the procedures and presentation of evidence on which the parties would benefit from the Court’s guidance.”