Florida AG Unable to Shift Meta Child Privacy Case to Home Turf

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody (R) failed to shift most of her lawsuit alleging Meta Platforms Inc. violated child privacy law back to a Florida federal district court.

Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers of Oakland, Calif., who is overseeing a consolidated multidistrict litigation against social media giants, ruled Tuesday that the US District Court for the Middle District of Florida doesn’t have jurisdiction to hear the bulk of the Florida AG’s case.

Florida’s lawsuit was filed in that court last fall, the same day that a multi-state coalition of over 30 AGs filed a nearly identical joint suit against Meta before ...