Meta & Children's Online SafetyMeta Children’s Online Safety Litigation
Bellwether / Tag-AlongDeKalb Cnty. Sch. Dist. v. Meta Platforms, Inc.
Current Status
- Selected as a school-district bellwether per Case Management Order No. 24. - The only trial bellwether to assert a Lexecon objection. Having filed directly into the MDL, it had no originating district to be remanded to for trial, so it re-filed in N.D. Ga. and was transferred straight back — creating a home court in which Judge Gonzalez Rogers could preside by intercircuit assignment. - CMO No. 24 said the Court would finalize that intercircuit assignment; nothing on the docket has addressed it since 6/16/2025. - Defendants' summary judgment motion was filed 9/30/2025, set for hearing 1/26/2026, and remains undecided as of 9/11/2026.
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Timeline (6)
— Complaint direct-filed into MDL 3047 — DeKalb Cnty. Sch. Dist. v. Meta
Applies to: DeKalb Cnty. Sch. Dist. v. Meta
Source type not recordedDeKalb County School District files its complaint directly into MDL 3047, opening as 4:23-cv-05733-YGR. This is the district’s entry into the litigation; the 2025 N.D. Ga. action replaces it.
— Re-filing ordered to enable intercircuit assignment — DeKalb Cnty. Sch. Dist. v. Meta
Applies to: DeKalb Cnty. Sch. Dist. v. Meta
Source type not recordedCourt grants a joint stipulation letting DeKalb, which had asserted a Lexecon objection, re-file in its home district by 2/10/2025 so the case can be assigned for trial there. The re-filed action replaces the original in all respects, with discovery carried over and the filing date relating back for limitations purposes.
— Case re-filed in N.D. Ga. — DeKalb Cnty. Sch. Dist. v. Meta
Applies to: DeKalb Cnty. Sch. Dist. v. Meta
Source type not recordedDeKalb County School District re-files its case in the Northern District of Georgia as Case No. 1:25-cv-00645, using the school-district master short-form complaint, under the stipulation permitting Lexecon objectors to replace a directly-filed MDL case with one filed in their home district.
— Transferred into MDL 3047 — DeKalb Cnty. Sch. Dist. v. Meta
Applies to: DeKalb Cnty. Sch. Dist. v. Meta
Source type not recordedCase transferred from N.D. Ga. to N.D. Cal. under JPML Conditional Transfer Order No. 40, signed 3/4/2025; the member case opened on this date.
— Selected as bellwether (CMO No. 24) — DeKalb Cnty. Sch. Dist. v. Meta
Applies to: DeKalb Cnty. Sch. Dist. v. Meta
Source type not recordedCourt selects DeKalb County School District as one of six original school-district bellwethers; DeKalb lodged a Lexecon objection requiring intercircuit assignment.
— Summary judgment motion filed — DeKalb Cnty. Sch. Dist. v. Meta
Applies to: DeKalb Cnty. Sch. Dist. v. Meta
Source type not recordedDefendants move for summary judgment on DeKalb County School District’s claims, one of six coordinated school-district bellwether motions.