Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP, Motley Rice LLC, Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check LLP and other firms triumphed after a California federal judge on Monday denied social media companies’ request for a summary judgment win on a school district’s claims that it was forced to spend money to combat students’ purported social media addictions.
U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers denied the companies’ motion for summary judgment in the multidistrict litigation on bellwether Breathitt County School District’s claims of negligence and public nuisance against Facebook and Instagram owner Meta Platforms Inc., YouTube owner Google, TikTok owner ByteDance Ltd., and Snapchat owner Snap Inc.
The personal injury plaintiffs and school district plaintiffs are represented by Lexi Hazam, Jason Lichtman and Kelly McNabb of Lieff Cabraser, Previn Warren and Esther Berezofsky of Motley Rice, Melissa Yeates and Tyler Graden of Kessler Topaz, Michael Weinkowitz of Levin Sedran & Berman LLP, Andre Mura of Gibbs Mura LLP, Sarah Emery of Hendy Johnson Vaughn PSC, Austin Brane of Wagstaff & Cartmell LLP, Matthew Legg of Brockstedt Mandalas Federico LLC, Jennifer Scullion of Seeger Weiss LLP, and William Harris II, among others.
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