April 05, 2022
Meta Platforms' Facebook and its counsel at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP should be sanctioned for stonewalling document production in multidistrict litigation over the Cambridge Analytica data harvesting scandal, social media users told a California federal judge in a motion unsealed Friday.
November 15, 2021
Facebook users pressing multidistrict litigation in California federal court over the Cambridge Analytica data harvesting scandal will be able to review CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg's privacy-related communications, after a special master found that the executives are likely to have "uniquely relevant" information about the issues at the center of the dispute.
May 28, 2021
Just because some of Facebook's confidential documents were leaked illegally during a 2018 legal dispute doesn't preclude them from being marked confidential, Facebook's counsel argued in a recently filed reply brief.
November 10, 2020
A California federal judge on Tuesday dropped British plaintiffs from multidistrict litigation over the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal, finding a new forum selection clause allows them to pursue claims against Facebook in their home courts in the U.K.
August 14, 2020
A California federal magistrate judge on Friday slammed the relentless discovery disputes between Facebook and users pursuing multidistrict litigation over the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal, saying, "I'm really losing patience with this case" and suggesting that a special master be called in to help wade through the issues.
July 15, 2020
A California judge appeared skeptical Wednesday of American Facebook users' arguments that their counterparts in the United Kingdom should be allowed to join U.S. multidistrict litigation over the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal.
July 13, 2020
Facebook urged a California federal magistrate judge Monday to reject efforts by users suing over the Cambridge Analytica scandal to review a Gibson Dunn-led investigation, saying the law firm's look into possible misbehavior by some Facebook developers is largely protected by attorney-client privilege.
May 20, 2020
Facebook has urged a California federal judge not to allow some of its users in the United Kingdom to join U.S. multidistrict litigation over the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal, saying U.K. users already agreed to bring claims against the social media giant elsewhere.
April 17, 2020
A California magistrate judge overseeing discovery in Facebook users' privacy suit over the Cambridge Analytica scandal told opposing attorneys Friday to "stop with the emails and letters" and meet informally on Zoom instead, saying everyone's distracted and "doesn't know if their law firm is going to be here in a year."
November 01, 2019
Facebook on Friday lost its bid to immediately appeal to the Ninth Circuit a September ruling that allowed users suing over the Cambridge Analytica data-harvesting scandal to move forward with most of their privacy claims.