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Comment: In issuing blunt sanctions order to Meta, US judge aimed for wider audience

By Mike Swift ( February 15, 2023, 21:54 GMT | Comment) -- It wasn’t just the blunt rhetoric that US District Judge Vince Chhabria used to condemn the conduct of Meta and Gibson Dunn that made his sanctions order last week so notable. Chhabria clearly wanted to address a wider audience than a single law firm and a social media giant, saying their litigation “playbook” of delay and obstruct has become far too common in tech industry cases.There is a key fact about the hundreds of class-action privacy cases filed by consumers over past the decade against large tech companies such as Google, Apple, Meta Platforms, Yahoo, Twitter, Zoom and Amazon in San Francisco Bay Area federal courts: none of those cases has ever reached a trial by jury....

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