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Vargas et al v. Facebook, Inc.
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3:19-cv-05081
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- Conrad Metlitzky
- Gibson Dunn
- Gupta Wessler
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February 21, 2024
Justices Turn Away Meta Bid To End Ad Discrimination Suit
A proposed class action accusing Facebook owner Meta of permitting discrimination in choices regarding which users could see housing ads appears headed for discovery after the U.S. Supreme Court denied the company's petition to appeal a split Ninth Circuit ruling.
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August 23, 2021
Facebook Shakes Housing Bias Ad Suit For Good
A California federal judge has tossed for good a proposed discrimination class action alleging that Facebook allows advertisers to illegally exclude certain users from seeing housing ads, finding the putative class wasn't harmed and Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act ultimately bars the lawsuit.
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April 05, 2021
Facebook Wants Housing Bias Ad Suit Axed Again
Facebook has asked a California federal judge to toss a proposed class action over housing discrimination through targeted advertisements, arguing that the complaint "is unsupported by any plausible facts" because advertisers — not Facebook — are discriminating through advertising preferences.
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January 13, 2021
Facebook Users' Housing Ad Bias Suit Axed For Now
A California federal judge said Wednesday that he plans to toss a proposed discrimination class action alleging Facebook allows advertisers to illegally exclude certain users from seeing housing ads, saying the consumers haven't described how they suffered a concrete injury, but he would give them another shot.
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August 19, 2019
Facebook Faces More Consumer Claims Over Housing Ads
A group of New York residents became the latest to accuse Facebook of enabling advertisers to illegally exclude certain users from seeing housing advertisements with a proposed class action filed Friday in California federal court.