Tuesday, August 11, 2026

Hair Relaxer Leads a Firm-Concentrated Docket

Hair-relaxer claims set the day’s pace as Hair Relaxer Marketing, Sales Practices, and Products Liability Litigation (3060) drew 17 filings, with Pulaski Kherkher PLLC filing seven and Wallace Miller four. Platform litigation held the next tier: Social Media Adolescent Addiction Personal Injury Products Liability Litigation (3047) added 10 cases, six from Levin Papantonio and one from Bossier & Associates PLLC. Glucagon-like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists (GLP-1 RAs) Products Liability (Gastroparesis) Litigation (3094) received nine complaints, five through Nigh Goldenberg Raso Vaughn PLLC and one through Hammers Law Firm LLC, extending the drug docket’s steady intake. PFAS and device claims each added seven cases, as Aqueous Film-Forming Foams Personal Injury Products Liability Litigation (2873) drew four filings from Keefe Law Firm LLC and one from The Law Firm of Hutchens Senter & Britton PA, while every new Covidien Hernia Mesh Products Liability Litigation (No. II) (3029) complaint came from Babin Law LLC. See the full filing feed and firm-level breakdowns here.

Ninth Circuit Keeps Social-Media Addiction Claims Alive

The Ninth Circuit on August 10 dismissed Meta’s and TikTok’s interlocutory appeals as premature, rejecting their bid to use a Section 230 defense to halt claims at the threshold in Social Media Adolescent Addiction Personal Injury Products Liability Litigation (3047). The ruling keeps more than 3,000 federal cases in the district court rather than allowing the defendants to convert an asserted liability defense into immediate appellate immunity. It does not decide whether any platform caused injury or owes damages, but it preserves the plaintiffs’ route to merits litigation. That procedural loss increases pressure on defendants to litigate the design, recommendation, notification and engagement evidence that their appeals sought to avoid.

California Social-Media Trial Moves to Jury Selection

Jury selection begins August 12 in California’s action against Meta, with opening statements scheduled for August 18, bringing Social Media Adolescent Addiction Personal Injury Products Liability Litigation (3047) to an immediate trial-stage test. The proceeding uses an advisory jury, leaving Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers with ultimate authority over factual findings rather than delivering a conventional binding verdict. The schedule forces the parties to present their competing evidence on youth harm and platform design now, not after another round of threshold briefing. Its result will not resolve the full federal docket, but the evidence record and judicial findings will become an important measure of leverage as the broader litigation advances.