Meta & Children's Online SafetyMeta Children’s Online Safety Litigation
Bellwether / Tag-AlongClevenger v. Meta Platforms, Inc.
Current Status
- Selected as a federal personal-injury bellwether per Case Management Order No. 24. - No trial date is set — Case Management Order No. 36 lists only the AG and school-district bellwether trials. - The only docket activity since selection is a notice entered 6/12/2026 whose document is not publicly available.
Docket entries (0)
No published docket entries linked to this case.
Timeline (4)
— Transferred into MDL 3047 — Clevenger v. Meta
Applies to: Clevenger v. Meta
Source type not recordedCase transferred from E.D. Pa. to N.D. Cal. under JPML Conditional Transfer Order No. 1, signed 10/19/2022; the member case opened on this date.
— Short-form complaint filed — Clevenger v. Meta
Applies to: Clevenger v. Meta
Source type not recordedLaurel Clevenger files a short-form complaint under the MDL master complaint; per CMO No. 16 (Dkt. 1023), this and six other bellwether-pool cases all filed SFCs on this date.
— Motion to add YouTube/Google as defendants denied (CMO No. 16) — Clevenger v. Meta
Applies to: Clevenger v. Meta
Source type not recordedCourt denies Clevenger's (and fellow bellwether plaintiffs Melton's and Craig's) motion for leave to amend to add Google/YouTube as defendants, to preserve the bellwether pool's representativeness. Court holds Clevenger may instead file a separate complaint against Google/YouTube.
— Selected as bellwether (CMO No. 24) — Clevenger v. Meta
Applies to: Clevenger v. Meta
Source type not recordedCourt selects Clevenger as one of five original federal individual-plaintiff bellwethers.