Meta’s Mandamus Petition Denied By Nev. High Court In Social Media Addiction Suit

( February 3, 2025, 10:17 AM EST) -- CARSON CITY, Nev. — The Nevada Supreme Court issued an order denying petitions for writs of mandamus and prohibition filed by Meta Platforms Inc. (formerly Facebook Inc.) after a lower court partially dismissed the state’s three similar suits asserting claims for violation of common-law tort and anticompetition law related to allegations of Meta’s services Messenger, Facebook and Instagram publishing third-party content and causing teenagers to purportedly become addicted to those services, holding that the court is “not persuaded that our extraordinary intervention is warranted.”...