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Meta opposes Texas move to bifurcate looming facial recognition trial

( May 9, 2024, 23:07 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Meta Platforms told a Texas state court judge that he should deny a motion by the Texas attorney general to break a trial scheduled to start next month over Meta's use of facial recognition technology to help Facebook users tag the identity of photos uploaded to the platform into two phases, on liability and attorney fees. "With only two weeks for trial—a calendar the State pushed for—it makes little sense to reserve an entire day for what is most likely a single-witness trial on attorneys’ fees, assuming the Court does not exclude that witness altogether, as it should," Meta said in a court filing. "That plan the State proposes (reserving the final Friday for a fee trial) also depends on the jury’s returning a prompt verdict. Absent that, bifurcation creates a serious risk of mistrial as it would require, in the event of a plaintiff verdict, the same jurors to return weeks later to hear the fee issue."See attached document....

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