Amazon, T-Mobile Targeted Job-Ads Ruling Could Affect Bias Cases

A California federal judge’s recent decision to throw out an age-bias lawsuit targeting Amazon.com Inc. and T-Mobile US Inc. advertisements on Facebook, while giving plaintiffs an outline for how to satisfy her concerns, could shape future claims of discrimination in the digital age.

Amazon and T-Mobile convinced Judge Beth Labson Freeman in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California to toss a proposed class action claiming the tech companies discriminate against older workers by targeting their employment ads on Facebook to young people.

But the judge laid out specific criteria for the plaintiffs to file a ...