Civil Procedure
Sep. 18, 2026
Social media companies seek to introduce lawyer ads in addiction trial
Meta, YouTube and Snapchat want jurors in the next social media addiction bellwether trial in Los Angeles to hear that both families contacted lawyers after encountering advertisements about litigation.
Social media companies want jurors to hear that attorney advertising prompted both families in the next Los Angeles County addiction trial to sue, arguing the evidence would give a "complete picture" of their credibility and how the parents came to blame the platforms for their children's mental health harms.
The request from Meta, YouTube and Snapchat is one of several pretrial disputes mapped out in filings Thursday and is set to be taken up at a Sept. 29 final sta...
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