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February 9 (Reuters) – Thursday USA judge has sanctioned Meta Platforms Inc ( META.O ) and its law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher for “delay, misdirection and frivolous arguments” in a data privacy lawsuit related to the company’s user sharing. information with third parties.
USADistrict Judge Vince Chhabria in San Francisco, Facebookto Meta and Gibson Dunn, the parent company of court approximately 925,000 for efforts to make the process unnecessarily difficult and expensive for claimants dollars ordered to pay.
Chhabria, a long-time critic of Gibson Dunn’s handling of the case, said the firm’s and Facebooksaid that there was a “continuous, concerted, malicious effort to throw obstacle after obstacle in front of the plaintiffs, all in an attempt to push the plaintiffs away. they started settling the case at a lower price than they could have gotten otherwise.”
Gibson Dunn and Facebook representatives did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Company court in the documents court argued that it was following its decisions and accused the plaintiffs of making “unreasonable and incessant” demands for company documents. Based in Los Angeles, Gibson Dunn has represented the company in many matters.
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Meta, the parent company of Facebook, 2018of Facebook in Britain political 725 million last year to settle an allegation that consulting firm Cambridge Analytica gave access to the data of 87 million users dollars agreed to pay. The company did not admit the mistake.
In Thursday’s decision judge It accused Meta and its attorneys of claiming they were only required to provide internal documents in the case involving user data the company admitted sharing with third parties. The court ordered Facebook to hand over the information it collected about the plaintiffs in the case, regardless of whether it was shared or not.
Judge also accused Meta’s legal team of unnecessarily delaying the handover of documents related to Facebook’s commissioned internal investigation into third-party apps accessing user data.
Case IN RE: FACEBOOK, INC. Consumer Privacy User Profile Litigation, Northern District of California USA District Court, No. 18-md-02843-VC.
For the plaintiffs: Derek Loeser of Keller Rohrback and Lesley Weaver of Bleichmar Fonti
For Meta: Rosemarie Ring of Gibson Dunn
Reporting by Andrew Goudsward
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2023-02-10 06:48:35
Source – reuters
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