Meta & Children's Online SafetyMeta Children’s Online Safety Litigation
Bellwether / Tag-AlongFla. Off. of the Att'y Gen., Dep't of Legal Affairs v. Meta Platforms, Inc.
Current Status
- Active in Florida state court, not in MDL 3047. The State dismissed its federal case on 12/9/2024 and refiled the next day in the Circuit Court for Pasco County. - Meta's certiorari petition to the Second District Court of Appeal, No. 2D2025-3187, is open — no decision, and no oral argument set. It challenges Judge Alicia Polk's refusal to dismiss of 10/27/2025 on Section 230 and First Amendment grounds. The case has not been stayed: the appellate court approved the circuit court's refusal of a stay on 3/20/2026. - Refused the 8/26/2026 multistate settlement — AG Uthmeier called it "a rounding error" for Meta — and says it will try its own case. One of three states outside the deal, alongside New Mexico, which had already won its own judgment, and Texas, which settled separately the same day. No trial date has been announced.
Docket entries (0)
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Timeline (13)
— Complaint filed (M.D. Fla.) — Florida v. Meta
Applies to: Florida v. Meta
Source type not recordedThen-Attorney General Ashley Moody files suit against Meta Platforms and Instagram in the Middle District of Florida, Tampa Division, under Florida's Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act and COPPA.
— Transferred into MDL 3047 — Florida v. Meta
Applies to: Florida v. Meta
Source type not recordedCase transferred from M.D. Fla. to N.D. Cal. under JPML Conditional Transfer Order No. 21, signed 11/8/2023; the member case opened on this date.
— Amended complaint adds Meta Payments — Florida v. Meta
Applies to: Florida v. Meta
Source type not recordedThe State files an amended complaint adding Meta Payments as a defendant.
— Multistate AG complaint MTD ruling reaches Florida's case — Florida v. Meta
Applies to: Florida v. Meta
Source type not recordedCourt largely denies Meta's motion to dismiss the multistate Attorneys General complaint, ruling on Florida's complaint in the same order.
— COPPA claim dismissed for improper venue — Florida v. Meta
Applies to: Florida v. Meta
Source type not recordedCourt grants in part and denies in part Meta's motion to dismiss the amended complaint: Florida's COPPA claim is dismissed without prejudice as improperly venued in the Middle District of Florida, the claims against Meta Payments are dismissed with prejudice, and the FDUTPA claim survives, that court having specific personal jurisdiction over it.
— Appeal docketed in the Ninth Circuit — Florida v. Meta
Applies to: Florida v. Meta
Source type not recordedNinth Circuit dockets Meta's appeal of the October 2024 dismissal ruling as No. 24-7019; Florida cross-appeals on 11/27/2024, docketed as No. 24-7266.
— Federal case voluntarily dismissed — Florida v. Meta
Applies to: Florida v. Meta
Source type not recordedFlorida dismisses its federal case without prejudice.
— Case refiled in Florida state court — Florida v. Meta
Applies to: Florida v. Meta
Source type not recordedThe Attorney General refiles the next day in the Circuit Court for Pasco County against Meta Platforms and Instagram, pleading only the FDUTPA claim and dropping Meta Payments, which had been dismissed with prejudice.
— Both federal appeals voluntarily dismissed — Florida v. Meta
Applies to: Florida v. Meta
Source type not recordedNinth Circuit dismisses Meta's appeal and Florida's cross-appeal on the parties' stipulation; nothing further is filed in the federal case.
— Motion to dismiss denied in Pasco County — Florida v. Meta
Applies to: Florida v. Meta
Source type not recordedCircuit Judge Alicia Polk denies Meta's motion to dismiss the FDUTPA case in a one-page order.
— Meta petitions the Second District Court of Appeal — Florida v. Meta
Applies to: Florida v. Meta
Source type not recordedMeta and Instagram petition Florida's Second District Court of Appeal for a writ of certiorari as No. 2D2025-3187, seeking review of the refusal to dismiss on Section 230 and First Amendment grounds.
— Stay pending certiorari refused — Florida v. Meta
Applies to: Florida v. Meta
Source type not recordedSecond District Court of Appeal reviews and approves the circuit court's order denying Meta a stay pending certiorari, so the case continues in Pasco County.
— Florida refuses the multistate settlement — Florida v. Meta
Applies to: Florida v. Meta
Source type not recordedFlorida declines to join the multistate settlement, Attorney General Uthmeier calling the payout "a rounding error" for Meta and saying the State will take its own case to trial.