4 Cases from School Boards in Ill., N.C. Transfered to Social Media MDL

The Judicial Panel for Multidistrict Litigation transferred four board of education class actions against social media platforms to In Re: Social Media Adolescent Addiction/Personal Injury Products Liability Litigation, said conditional transfer order 26 (CTO-26) (docket 3047). The actions involve questions of fact common to the actions previously transferred to the MDL and assigned to U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers for Northern California, said the order. The actions in CTO-26 are Board of Education East Prairie School District 73 et al v. Meta Platforms et al (docket 1:24-cv-00042) from U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois and three cases from U.S. District Court for Eastern North Carolina: Johnston County Board of Education v. Meta (docket 5:23-cv-00718), Wilson County Board of Education v. Meta (docket 5:23-cv-00720) and Clinton City Board of Education v. Meta (docket 7:23-cv-01672), it said. The actions seek to hold social media platforms responsible for rising rates of mental illness among U.S. school kids. The transmittal of the order is stayed for seven days to allow any of the parties to oppose the transfer.