Torts/Personal Injury
Apr. 23, 2026
Alternative cause evidence allowed in social media addiction trial
A Los Angeles judge allowed sensitive alternative-cause evidence, declined to delay trial, and weighed summary judgment in coordinated social media addiction cases, as defendants challenge causation and plaintiffs push claims forward.
The judge overseeing the social media addiction cases in Los Angeles denied efforts to exclude evidence of alternative causes, such as sexual assault, for a plaintiff's alleged harm, and declined to delay trial in another case, setting it for July.
Superior Court Judge Carolyn B. Kuhl also focused a late Tuesday hearing on summary judgment motions in a third case, in which social media companies argued the plaintiff's own admissions undermined causation.
Kuhl did...
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