Meta & Children's Online SafetyMeta Children’s Online Safety Litigation
Consolidated ProceedingMDL 3047
Current Status
- Active — coordinated federal personal-injury MDL before Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, N.D. Cal. - 3,208 pending cases per the 9/1/2026 JPML report. - Umbrella proceeding coordinating the AG/COPPA trial track, school-district bellwethers, and personal-injury bellwethers.
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Timeline (25)
— MDL 3047 formed — MDL 3047
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Source type not recordedJPML issues transfer order centralizing 28 actions from 17 districts in N.D. Cal. before Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers for coordinated or consolidated pretrial proceedings, creating MDL No. 3047.
— Plaintiffs’ leadership appointed — MDL 3047
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Source type not recordedCase Management Order No. 1 appoints Christopher Seeger, Lexi Hazam and Previn Warren as Plaintiffs’ Co-Lead Counsel, Jennie Anderson as Plaintiffs’ Liaison Counsel, and a Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee.
— Master Complaint (Personal Injury) filed — MDL 3047
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Source type not recordedPlaintiffs file the corrected Master Complaint (Personal Injury) against the Meta, Snap, TikTok/ByteDance and Google/YouTube entities, superseding the redacted master complaint filed 2/14/2023.
— Amended Master Complaint (Personal Injury) filed — MDL 3047
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Source type not recordedPlaintiffs file the Amended Master Complaint (Personal Injury).
— Multistate AG complaint filed — MDL 3047; California v. Meta (Multistate AG/COPPA Trial Track)
Applies to: MDL 3047; California v. Meta (Multistate AG/COPPA Trial Track)
Source type not recordedThe state attorneys general file their multistate complaint against Meta directly in N.D. Cal. as 4:23-cv-05448, coordinated within MDL 3047.
— First motion-to-dismiss ruling — MDL 3047
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Source type not recordedCourt grants in part and denies in part defendants’ motions to dismiss, dismissing several design-defect theories on Section 230 and First Amendment grounds but otherwise denying the motions and holding the negligence per se claim barred by neither.
— Second Amended Master Complaint (Personal Injury) filed — MDL 3047
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Source type not recordedPlaintiffs file the Second Amended Master Complaint (Personal Injury), the operative personal-injury master pleading.
— Master Complaint (Local Government and School District) filed — MDL 3047
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Source type not recordedPlaintiffs file the Local Government and School District Master Complaint.
— Interlocutory appeal denied (first MTD ruling) — MDL 3047
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Source type not recordedCourt denies defendants' motion to certify the November 2023 MTD order for interlocutory appeal.
— Amended Master Complaint (Local Government and School District) filed — MDL 3047
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Source type not recordedPlaintiffs file the Amended Master Complaint (Local Government and School District)
— Zuckerberg's first MTD granted (leave to amend) — MDL 3047
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Source type not recordedCourt dismisses the Second Amended Master Complaint’s fraudulent and negligent concealment claims as against Zuckerberg personally
— Multistate AG complaint mostly survives MTD — MDL 3047
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Source type not recordedCourt largely denies Meta's motion to dismiss the states' multistate AG complaint (and related Florida AG/ claims), limiting but not eliminating scope.
— School District Master Complaint MTD ruling — MDL 3047
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Source type not recordedCourt grants in part/denies in part defendants' motion to dismiss the School District and Local Government Master Complaint.
— Zuckerberg's second MTD granted — MDL 3047
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Source type not recordedCourt dismisses personal-injury plaintiffs' corporate-officer liability claims against Zuckerberg.
— Meta appeals to Ninth Circuit — MDL 3047
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Source type not recordedMeta defendants appeal the October 2024 AG-complaint and School District dismissal rulings to the Ninth Circuit, on whether Section 230 bars failure-to-warn claims about platform features.
— School District public nuisance claims MTD ruling — MDL 3047
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Source type not recordedCourt grants in part and denies in part defendants’ motion to dismiss the school districts’ public nuisance claims, dismissing them under four states’ laws and allowing them under fifteen.
— Non-priority claims MTD ruling — MDL 3047
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Source type not recordedCourt grants in part/denies in part defendants' motion to dismiss personal-injury plaintiffs' non-priority claims (Counts 5, 12, 14, 16-18).
— Second round of interlocutory appeal motions denied — MDL 3047
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Source type not recordedCourt denies certification of the school district rulings for interlocutory appeal, and denies the Section 230 motions without prejudice pending resolution of similar issues before the Ninth Circuit
— Amended complaint filed — California v. Meta (Multistate AG/COPPA Trial Track); MDL 3047
Applies to: California v. Meta (Multistate AG/COPPA Trial Track); MDL 3047
Source type not recordedThe state attorneys general file their Amended Complaint for Injunctive and Other Relief, striking the claims of Georgia, Michigan, Missouri and North Dakota, which had dismissed, and the state-law claims of seven more states that chose to proceed on COPPA alone, leaving a coalition of 29.
— Initial bellwether cases selected (CMO No. 24) — MDL 3047
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Source type not recordedCourt selects six school-district bellwethers (Harford, DeKalb, Breathitt, Irvington, Tucson, Charleston) and five individual-plaintiff bellwethers (D'Orazio, Smith, Melton, Mullen, Clevenger); S.K. placed on standby pending any bellwether dropping out.
— Summary judgment motions filed against school-district bellwethers — MDL 3047
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Source type not recordedDefendants move for summary judgment against all six school-district bellwethers in a single coordinated batch.
— First bellwether trial date set — MDL 3047
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Source type not recordedCase Management Order No. 31 sets jury selection for 6/12/2026 and trial start for 6/15/2026 for the first bellwether trial.
— First summary judgment ruling — MDL 3047
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Source type not recordedCourt denies defendants’ motion for summary judgment on Breathitt County’s negligence and public nuisance claims.
— Ninth Circuit dismisses 2024 appeals — MDL 3047; California v. Meta (Multistate AG/COPPA Trial Track)
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Source type not recordedNinth Circuit dismisses the appeals and cross-appeals for lack of jurisdiction, holding that Section 230 provides a defense to liability rather than immunity from suit.
— $17.1B consent judgment entered — California v. Meta (Multistate AG/COPPA Trial Track); MDL 3047
Applies to: California v. Meta (Multistate AG/COPPA Trial Track); MDL 3047
Source type not recordedCourt enters a consent judgment resolving the 29 plaintiff states' claims, with no admission of liability and obligations running ten years; Meta enters parallel consent judgments with attorneys general elsewhere in the United States.