Meta & Children's Online SafetyMeta Children’s Online Safety Litigation
Bellwether / Tag-AlongI.P. v. Meta Platforms, Inc.
Current Status
- Trial 3/16/2027, with the other two Trial Pool 3 plaintiffs. Any motion to try more than one of them before a single jury is due before 12/31/2026. - Trial Group 3b on the early summary-judgment track, per the 4/15/2025 ordering. Still pending, and among the most active of the bellwethers: she survived summary judgment against all four platforms on 7/2/2026 and amended her complaint for the fourth time on 8/19/2026.
Docket entries (0)
No published docket entries linked to this case.
Timeline (7)
— Complaint filed — I.P. v. Meta
Applies to: I.P. v. Meta
Source type not recordedOriginal complaint filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court as Frances Zaragoza, et al. v. Meta Platforms, Inc., et al., Case No. 23STCV22481 — a caption the case still carries. I.P. is one of several plaintiffs on it.
— Ordered as Trial Group 3b, early MSJ track — I.P. v. Meta
Applies to: I.P. v. Meta
Source type not recordedCourt's Ruling on Selection/Ordering of Bellwether Trial Plaintiffs designates I.P. as part of Trial Group 3, alongside Jaime Loach and Paul Kelly, with an early summary-judgment track ordered for this case.
— Defendants move for summary judgment — I.P. v. Meta
Applies to: I.P. v. Meta
Source type not recordedMeta moves for summary judgment or, in the alternative, summary adjudication against I.P.; YouTube and Google follow on 8/8/2025, and TikTok and Snap have motions pending by this point.
— Summary judgment oppositions filed — I.P. v. Meta
Applies to: I.P. v. Meta
Source type not recordedI.P. files oppositions to summary judgment motions from Meta, Snap, YouTube/Google, and TikTok.
— Ruling on the four platforms' motions for summary judgment — I.P. v. Meta
Applies to: I.P. v. Meta
Source type not recordedThe court rules on Meta's, TikTok's, YouTube and Google's, and Snap's motions for summary judgment or summary adjudication, heard 4/21/2026. The case continues.
— Fourth Amended Short Form Complaint filed — I.P. v. Meta
Applies to: I.P. v. Meta
Source type not recordedI.P. files a Fourth Amended Short Form Complaint, the operative pleading going into trial and the most recent filing on her docket.
— Scheduled trial date — I.P. v. Meta
Applies to: I.P. v. Meta
Source type not recordedBellwether trial with the other two Trial Pool 3 plaintiffs, set by the court on 9/9/2026.