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Meta, Snap, TikTok, and YouTube have each agreed to settle claims brought by a County School District in Kentucky, resolving the first bellwether school district case in the Social Media Adolescent Addiction/Personal Injury Products Liability MDL. The trial had been scheduled to begin in June in the U.S. District Court in Oakland, California.
Seeger Weiss founding partner Christopher A. Seeger serves as Counsel to the Co-Lead Counsel and Settlement Counsel.
School district cases in the MDL seek funds to support mental health programs and technology initiatives for students, as well as injunctive relief requiring the platforms to reduce addictive features.
The settlement follows two significant victories in March 2026. A Los Angeles jury found Meta and YouTube liable for personal injury claims brought by a young user, awarding $6 million in damages. A separate New Mexico jury ordered Meta to pay $375 million in civil penalties over consumer protection violations and child safety failures.
The MDL, pending before U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, also includes personal injury plaintiffs, state attorneys general, and Native American tribes. The next school district bellwether trials, brought by Tucson Unified School District and Charleston County School District, are scheduled to begin in 2027.
To learn more about Seeger Weiss’s social media addiction litigation work, visit https://www.seegerweiss.com/product-liability/social-media-harm/.
Prior results do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome in any future matter.