Meta Antitrust Suit Should Be Reinstated on Appeal, States Argue

New York and the Justice Department urged a federal appeals court to reinstate an antitrust suit that dozens of states brought against Meta Platforms Inc., saying a lower court was wrong to find they waited too long to sue.

New York Solicitor General Barbara D. Underwood said Facebook-parent Meta doesn’t face any additional harm from the suit brought by state attorneys general since it faces a parallel one brought by the Federal Trade Commission.

“There was no harm to Facebook from the states suing in 2020 rather than a few years earlier,” Underwood told a three-judge panel on ...