( December 15, 2023, 1:29 PM EST) -- OAKLAND, Calif. — A month after the operators of several of the largest social media platforms were only partly successful in obtaining dismissal of a product liability multidistrict ligation (MDL) over the purported addictive qualities of their platforms for adolescents, the defendants filed a motion in California federal court seeking certification of the dismissal ruling for the purpose of filing an interlocutory appeal to have the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals address the case’s “novel questions of law,” notably “the applicability of products liability torts to the digital world.”...