| 25-286 |
Six4Three, LLC v. Facebook, Inc., et al. |
California |
2025-09-11 |
Denied |
communications-decency-act developer-apis liability-immunity online-platform product-design section-230 |
Whether Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act immunizes an online platform for its own conduct, speech, and product design choices? |
| 24-1116 |
Jason Fyk v. Facebook, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-04-28 |
Denied |
communications-decency-act first-party-conduct immunity interactive-computer-service pleading-stage section-230 |
Whether §230(c)(1) confers immunity from suit at the pleading stage and protects affirmative first-party conduct by interactive computer service provi… |
| 24-5699 |
Susan Lloyd v. Facebook, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-04 |
Denied |
alter-ego data-privacy negligence public-accommodation section-230 website-accessibility |
Whether websites constitute places of public accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act and whether social media platforms can be held li… |
| 24-384 |
Meta Platforms, Inc., fka Facebook, Inc. v. DZ Reserve, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-04 |
Denied |
appellate-review circuit-split class-certification fraud-class-action predominance rule-23 |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's 'common course of conduct' test improperly dilutes Rule 23(b)(3)'s predominance requirement by ignoring differences among … |
| 24-259 |
Eric Alan Isaacson v. Meta Platforms, Inc., fka Facebook, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-09-09 |
Denied |
attorney-fees class-action common-fund lodestar representative-plaintiffs settlement-funds |
May district courts approve payments from class-action settlement funds to reward and encourage litigants for service as representative plaintiffs? |
| 24-224 |
Plumbers Local 290 Pension Trust Fund v. Root, Inc., et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-08-29 |
Dismissed |
circuit-split disclosure-standards materiality risk-factors sec-filing securities-law |
Whether the Supreme Court should resolve the circuit split regarding the misleading nature of risk factor disclosures in SEC filings when a warned ris… |
| 23A1112 |
Eric Alan Isaacson v. Meta Platforms, Inc., fka Facebook, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-06-14 |
Presumed Complete |
attorney-fees class-action-settlement internet-tracking privacy-rights service-awards wiretap-act |
Whether class action settlements that provide minimal recovery to class members while awarding substantial attorney's fees and 'service awards' to rep… |
| 23-980 |
Facebook, Inc., et al. v. Amalgamated Bank, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-03-06 |
Judgment Issued |
circuit-split disclosure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure loss-causation materiality pleading-standard risk-disclosure securities-fraud |
What public companies must disclose in the 'risk factors' section of their 10-K filings |
| 23-764 |
Facebook, Inc. v. Rosemarie Vargas, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
article-iii-standing circuit-conflict circuit-split civil-procedure federal-jurisdiction Iqbal judicial-procedure ninth-circuit-precedent plausibility plausibility-standard standing Twombly |
Does the Twombly-Iqbal plausibility standard apply to a plaintiff's allegations of Article III standing? |
| 23-647 |
Adrienne Sepaniak King v. Meta Platforms, Inc., fka Facebook, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-15 |
Denied |
47-usc-230 civil-procedure content-moderation contract contract-law first-amendment free-speech immunity internet-immunity judicial-interpretation section-230 standing |
Should this Court adopt the opinion of Justice Thomas in Malwarebytes v. Enigma Software Group USA, LLC, reverse the Barnes v. Yahoo!, Inc. decision, … |
| 23-495 |
Lucine Trim v. Reward Zone USA LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-09 |
Denied |
automatic-telephone-dialing-system circuit-split facebook-v-duguid number-generation random-or-sequential-number-generator statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent telephone-consumer-protection-act |
Does the TCPA's definition of an ATDS require a number generator to generate the numbers themselves? |
| 22-753 |
Jason Fyk v. Facebook, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-02-10 |
Denied |
communications-decency-act content-moderation due-process free-speech good-samaritan immunity interactive-computer-service-provider internet-service-provider section-230 |
Proper scope of immunity under Section 230(c) of the Communications Decency Act |
| 22-5133 |
Rian G. Waters v. Facebook, Inc., et al. |
First Circuit |
2022-07-19 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-court issue-preclusion obstruction procedural-fairness standing witness-protection |
Whether plaintiffs and witnesses have a right to receive protection from obstructive crimes while a case is proceeding in federal courts of justice? |
| 21A679 |
Rian G. Waters v. Facebook, Inc., et al. |
First Circuit |
2022-05-03 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21A626 |
Rian Waters v. Facebook, Inc., et al. |
First Circuit |
2022-04-19 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21-1106 |
Thaddeus Gabara v. Facebook, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2022-02-10 |
Denied |
35-usc-101 abstract-idea data-structure patent-claims patent-eligibility preemption prior-art section-101 two-step-framework |
What is the appropriate standard for determining whether a patent claim is 'directed to' a patent-ineligible concept under step 1 of the Court's two-s… |
| 21A162 |
Thaddeus Gabara v. Facebook, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2021-11-18 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 21-459 |
Jane Doe v. Facebook, Inc. |
Texas |
2021-09-27 |
Denied |
communications-decency-act immunity internet-platform-immunity legal-liability platform-misconduct publisher-liability section-230 sex-trafficking third-party-content |
Does Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act provide immunity from suit to internet platforms in any case arising from the publication of third-… |
| 20-727 |
Facebook, Inc. v. Perrin Aikens Davis, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
civil-procedure consent content-provider electronic-communication internet-content-provider internet-privacy user-consent web-browser wiretap-act |
Whether an internet content provider violates the Wiretap Act where a computer user's web browser instructs the provider to display content on the web… |
| 20-723 |
Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency v. Susan Allan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
GVR |
automatic-telephone-dialing-system civil-procedure federal-regulation number-generation random-or-sequential-number-generator standing statutory-interpretation telecommunications-law telephone-consumer-protection-act |
Whether the definition of an 'automatic telephone dialing system' (ATDS) in the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (TCPA) encompasses any devic… |
| 20-632 |
Jason Fyk v. Facebook, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-10 |
Denied |
anti-competitive-animus communications-decency-act good-faith-content-removal information-content-provider publisher-liability secondary-publisher |
Is the breadth of CDA immunity for interactive computer service providers |
| 20-5849 |
Uzoma Igbonwa v. Facebook, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process facebook free-speech immunity-provision ninth-circuit section-230 terms-of-service |
Whether Facebook was should be protected by the immunity provision of Section 230 of the Communication and Decency Act when they clearly violated its … |
| 20-418 |
Melanie Glasser v. Hilton Grand Vacations Company, LLC |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
automatic-telephone-dialing-system circuit-split human-intervention predictive-dialer random-or-sequential-number-generator statutory-interpretation telephone-consumer-protection-act |
Whether the TCPA's definition of an 'automatic telephone dialing system' encompasses predictive dialers that automatically dial telephone numbers stor… |
| 20-308 |
La Boom Disco, Inc. v. Radames Duran |
Second Circuit |
2020-09-09 |
GVR |
automatic-telephone-dialing-system circuit-court-interpretation federal-communications-commission hobbs-act human-intervention random-or-sequential-number-generator statutory-definition telephone-consumer-protection-act |
Does the statutory definition of ATDS encompass any device that can 'store' telephone numbers, even if the device does not 'us[e] a random or sequenti… |
| 20-209 |
Ali Gadelhak v. AT&T Services, Inc. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-08-21 |
Denied |
automatic-telephone-dialing-system circuit-split consent database-telemarketing smartphone statutory-interpretation telemarketing telephone-consumer-protection-act |
Whether the definition of an 'automatic telephone dialing system' (ATDS) under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) encompasses only systems t… |
| 19-1323 |
B.E. Technology, L.L.C. v. Facebook, Inc. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-06-01 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights costs due-process federal-circuit judicial-imprimatur legal-relationship mootness preclusion prevailing-party standing texas-state-teachers-association-v-garland |
Whether the dismissal of a case for mootness can satisfy the 'prevailing party' standard |
| 19-1006 |
Facebook, Inc., et al. v. Superior Court of California, San Francisco County, et al. |
California |
2020-02-11 |
Denied |
communication-contents constitutional-rights constitutional-subpoena contempt criminal-defendant-rights privacy privacy-protection service-provider-disclosure service-providers stored-communications-act subpoena |
Whether a criminal defendant has a constitutional right to subpoena service providers and force them to turn over the contents of their account holder… |
| 19-910 |
K. G. S., Individually and as Guardian and Next Friend of Baby Doe, a Minor Child v. Facebook, Inc. |
Alabama |
2020-01-22 |
Denied |
calder-effects-test calder-v-jones due-process effects-based-test fourteenth-amendment online-activity personal-jurisdiction reputational-harm virtual-contacts walden-v-fiore |
Whether virtual contacts can establish specific personal jurisdiction over a nonresident defendant under the effects-based test of Calder v. Jones |
| 19-859 |
Stuart Force, et al. v. Facebook, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
2020-01-09 |
Denied |
communications-decency-act content-provider editorial-function editorial-functions immunity interactive-computer-service legal-interpretation online-platforms publisher publisher-immunity section-230 |
Whether Section 230(c)(1) of the Communications Decency Act provides broad immunity to online platforms or is limited to traditional editorial functio… |
| 19-849 |
Kristanalea Dyroff, Individually and on Behalf of the Estate of Wesley Greer v. Ultimate Software Group, Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-06 |
Denied |
civil-rights communications-decency-act content-moderation editorial-function editorial-functions free-speech immunity information-provider internet-immunity publisher publisher-liability section-230 |
Does Section 230(c)(1) provide broad immunity or limit the definition of a publisher? |
| 19-728 |
Brian Davison v. Facebook, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-09 |
Denied |
censorship civil-rights delegation-of-authority due-process first-amendment free-speech government-delegation private-forum public-forum standing standing-to-sue |
Whether a person has standing to sue the government for a delegation of censorship authority to a private party when his speech on a topic of public i… |
| 19-706 |
Facebook, Inc. v. Nimesh Patel, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-04 |
Denied |
article-iii-standing circuit-split civil-procedure class-certification concrete-injury concrete-interest future-risk personal-information predominance real-world-injury risk-of-harm standing-article-iii statutory-violation |
Whether a court can find Article III standing based on its conclusion that a statute protects a concrete interest, without determining that the plaint… |
| 19A609 |
Facebook, Inc., et al. v. Superior Court of San Francisco County |
California |
2019-12-02 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 19A499 |
Stuart Force, et al. v. Facebook, Inc. |
Second Circuit |
2019-11-12 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 19A483 |
K.G.S., Individually and as Guardian and Next Friend of Baby Doe, a Minor Child v. Facebook, Inc. |
Alabama |
2019-11-04 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 19-511 |
Facebook, Inc. v. Noah Duguid, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-21 |
Judgment Issued |
automatic-telephone-dialing-system circuit-split content-discrimination first-amendment first-amendment-free-speech government-debt-collection-exception speech-restriction statutory-interpretation telephone-consumer-protection-act |
Whether the TCPA's prohibition on calls made using an ATDS is an unconstitutional restriction of speech, and if so whether the proper remedy is to bro… |
| 19-5616 |
Russell Rope v. Facebook, Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-16 |
Denied |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection fraud judicial-integrity legal-standing pro-se-litigation standing |
Whether the law extends to all citizens & corporations in modern times |