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Judge with conservative background to oversee Calif. social media trial

By Xu Yuan ( January 22, 2026, 23:17 GMT | Comment) -- Judge Carolyn B. Kuhl attracted widespread media attention during her failed nomination to the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in 2003 before returning to the Los Angeles Superior Court. As the first of a series of trials over addiction allegations against Meta Platforms, ByteDance, Google and Snap is about to take place next week, Kuhl, the presiding judge, is likely to be put under spotlight again.In 2003, Judge Carolyn B. Kuhl, as President George W. Bush’s nominee to the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, attracted widespread media attention for the positions she had advocated in cases touching on some of the most intensely debated issues in the US. The New York Times called her an “unworthy judicial nominee.”...

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