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Tech industry witnesses must testify in FTC trial against Meta, US judge says

( April 2, 2025, 23:41 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: A federal judge overseeing the approaching "high-stakes, national antitrust trial" between the US Federal Trade Commission and Meta Platforms ruled that subpoenaed tech industry witnesses — including employees of  Apple, Google, Nextdoor, Pinterest, X, TikTok, Discord and Snap — must testify in the trial, denying motions to quash witness testimony. "All nonparty witnesses have arguably relevant testimony from which the Court could benefit, and the parties themselves have an incentive not to call irrelevant witnesses, as doing so wastes the time allotted to each side to present its case," wrote US District Judge James Boasberg in denying the motions to quash. "Although Movants here are indisputably busy people with important careers and family obligations — and although no one enjoys crisscrossing the country to testify in court — such concerns, if credited, would eviscerate the role of live testimony for nationally important antitrust trials." See attached document....

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