9th Circuit Orders Meta To Respond To Mandamus Petition Over Discovery Order

( March 27, 2025, 2:40 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — Without providing explanation, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on March 26 ordered states and Meta Platforms Inc. to respond to a petition for a writ of mandamus seeking to direct a district court to grant state attorneys general’s objection to a discovery order and stay the order in a product liability multidistrict ligation over the purported addictive qualities for adolescents of several of the largest social media platforms....