JPML Sends 3 Section 230 Class Actions vs. Meta to Oakland Court

Three Communications Decency Act Section 230 class actions against Meta and other social media platforms were transferred and consolidated under U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers for Northern California in Oakland, said a Feb. 15 conditional transfer order (docket 2:23-cv-00172) from the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. Since the panel transferred 20 similar civil actions to the same court Oct. 6, 46 additional actions have been transferred and assigned to Rogers, said the order. The three newest cases -- filed by school districts in Kent, Washington (see 2301110029), Mesa Public Schools in Arizona (see 2301270067), and the Seattle School District -- involve questions of fact common to the previously transferred actions, it said.