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Technology,
Ediscovery

Nov. 30, 2022

Meta accused again of delaying discovery tactics

“After numerous lengthy emails and two separate meet-and-confers — on Sep. 1 and Sep. 22, respectively — Facebook still has not provided any substantive response to these interrogatories, five months after they were served,” wrote plaintiffs’ counsel Kevin Y. Teruya of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and Yavar Bathaee of Bathaee Dunne LLP.

Meta Platforms Inc. is in hot water once again regarding its discovery tactics in a first-of-its-kind antitrust class action; the plaintiffs claim in a letter filed Tuesday that the company refuses to respond to interrogatories.

According to the complaint filed by Kevin Y. Teruya of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, Facebook, Meta’s former company name, used surreptitiously acquired data “that it obtained from users to track the w...

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