12 More Case Transfers Are Finalized in Social Media Adolescent Addiction MDL

January 4, 2024 |Litigation Notebook

A dozen additional cases were transferred to In Re: Social Media Adolescent Addiction/Personal Injury Products Liability Litigation, said conditional transfer order 25 (docket 3047), which was finalized Tuesday before the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML). The 12 cases, against Meta, Snap, TikTok and Google, were filed by school districts in Colorado, Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and South Carolina, said the order. The first 20 actions in the MDL were transferred Oct. 6, 2022, to the Northern District of California for coordinated or consolidated pretrial proceedings under U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers. So far, 127 case transfers have been finalized.