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Litigation

Jul. 2, 2016

Facebook defeats class certification in privacy lawsuit

A federal judge has denied class certification to a group of plaintiffs in a long-pending lawsuit in which they accuse the social media giant of wrongly sharing their personal information.

By Tim O'Connor
Daily Journal Staff Writer

A federal judge has denied class certification to a group of plaintiffs in a long-pending lawsuit in which they accuse the social media giant Facebook Inc. of wrongly sharing their personal information.

U.S. District Judge Ronald M. Whyte left the reasoning behind his decision in the six-year-old action a mystery as he redacted all but three pages of the 19-page ruling he...

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