By Mike Swift ( August 17, 2026, 22:41 GMT | Comment) -- The federal judge who will preside over the high-stakes trial between 29 states and Meta Platforms that begins this week in Oakland, California, is not likely to be intimated by the moment or the power of litigants. US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, who last month became the chief judge of the Northern District of California, is not going to allow lawyers in her courtroom "to get away with bluster, posturing or a fake front in her courtroom," another federal judge said of Gonzalez Rogers' style. A 15-year veteran of the bench and the same judge who oversaw the trial between Elon Musk, OpenAI and Microsoft this year, Gonzales Rogers has an authoritative style and is unafraid to push back against Big Tech companies with unlimited legal resources.Earlier this year, US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers accomplished the near impossible: she got Elon Musk to muzzle himself on social media....
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