{"id":5579,"date":"2022-08-26T21:42:02","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T21:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.awkolaw.com\/?p=5579"},"modified":"2022-09-09T16:50:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T16:50:58","slug":"social-media-products-complaint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.awkolaw.com\/social-media-products-complaint\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media Products Complaint"},"content":{"rendered":"\n[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.18.0″ custom_margin=”0px||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.18.0″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” custom_margin=”0px||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.18.0″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]

AWKO files complaint against Meta & Snap<\/span><\/h2>\n

Mary Liu\u00a0of Aylstock, Witkin, Kreis & Overholtz, PLLC, Margaret Mabie of Marsh Law\u00a0Firm PLLC, and Hillary\u00a0<\/span>Nappi<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>of\u00a0<\/span>Hach & Rose LLP\u00a0<\/span>filed a products liability lawsuit against Meta and Snap for designing their social media products in ways that harm kids and facilitate child exploitation, sexual abuse, and the spread of child sex abuse material (CSAM) across the globe.<\/p>\n

Our attorneys seek to hold social media companies responsible for designing and marketing these products directly to kids under 18 years of age without warning of the life-threatening risks posed to their young, developing minds. Further, these social media products collect private information of children under 13 without verifiable parental consent, which violates federal law.<\/p>\n

Meta and Snap have known for years that their products harm kids, yet continued to market to them, encouraging addictive behaviors, child exploitation, sexual abuse, the spread of CSAM, and various other harms for economic gain. Meta’s own research and employees reveal that their social media products are a cause of increased depression, suicidal ideation, and sleep deprivation. Social media companies\u2019 algorithms target young kids to increase screen time, but fail to adequately warn the children and their parents of these severe harms.<\/p>\n

Read the full complaint here.<\/a><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mary Liu and the AWKO team are filing a complaint against Meta & Snap regarding its defectively designed social media products. <\/p>\n

Mother, Kelli Green, said the contaminated formula made her daughter sick and eventually led to her hospitalization with ear-related issues that her physicians could not treat as quickly because of the salmonella.
\nSonseeahray spoke with Sam Geisler, a lawyer representing families suing Abbott Nutrition alleging their babies were harmed, and in some cases killed, by that contamination.Two of those families are in Pensacola and attorney Sam Geisler said experts have been able to vet the cases and are working on more. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5595,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"\n

A verdict has been reached in the first of many cases involving military members getting defective hearing protection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere (are) 250,000 individual lawsuits filed at this point in the Northern District of Florida,\u201d said Bryan Aylstock from the Aylstock, Witkin, Kreis and Overholtz law firm in Pensacola. They are the firm that is taking the lead in all of these individual suits against 3M, the manufacturer of the Combat Arms version 2 ear plugs that were used by the military from 2002 to 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The plaintiffs in the cases are military members who have suffered hearing loss. The first of those cases has just ended with a verdict against 3M in federal court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo, it was three soldiers, all of whom served this country honorably and used these Combat Arms earplugs and suffered hearing damage\" said Aylstock. \"Collectively they received a little bit more than $7.1 million, which is a tremendous verdict. A lot of that was punitive damages, where the jury found by clear and convincing evidence that 3M\u2019s conduct as it relates to these ear plugs was reprehensible and deserved to be punished. And also a message needed to be sent to others, including 3M, who might try to do this in the future, that this is not an acceptable way to conduct your business.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the first lawsuit in what is called mass-tort litigation, which is different than a class-action suit, where all plaintiffs are represented in one law suit. There are two more already on the docket before Judge Casey Rodgers, Chief U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Florida in Pensacola.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a panel called The Judicial Panel for Multi-District Litigation, and it determined a couple of years ago that Pensacola was the appropriate forum to conduct all of the pretrial activities for all of the cases of this nature.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3M has already settled with the U.S.military for over $9 million, so the mass-tort litigation is only between the company and individual military members, both active duty and veterans. Aylstock fully expects this verdict to be appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt will be appealed, and we feel confident that all of the pretrial rulings that Judge Rodgers made, and the trial rulings were appropriate, and the appellate court will also find that they were appropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the verdict there have been no talks of settlement with 3M, so the trials and appeals will continue. Aylstock says he doesn\u2019t know how many rulings for the plaintiffs would bring 3M to the settlement table. Said Aylstock, \u201cIt will be as many as it takes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second trial is set to begin on Monday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Written By:<\/strong>
Bob Barrett
May 13th, 2021
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