A dozen additional cases were transferred to In Re: Social Media Adolescent Addiction/Personal Injury Products Liability Litigation, said conditional transfer order 25 (docket 3047), which was finalized Tuesday before the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML). The 12 cases, against Meta, Snap, TikTok and Google, were filed by school districts in Colorado, Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and South Carolina, said the order. The first 20 actions in the MDL were transferred Oct. 6, 2022, to the Northern District of California for coordinated or consolidated pretrial proceedings under U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers. So far, 127 case transfers have been finalized.

A jury trial is set for the term beginning Dec. 2 on plaintiff Linda Surrency’s Fair Credit Reporting Act claims against AT&T, Equifax and the National Consumer Telecom & Utilities Exchange (NCTUE), said a fast track case management and scheduling order (docket 8:23-cv-02323). U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle for Middle Florida in Tampa signed the order Thursday. The discovery cut-off deadline in the case is May 3, said the order. Surrency’s Oct. 12 complaint alleges that AT&T, Equifax and the NCTUE were “plainly deficient” in their investigations of her credit reporting dispute over identity theft (see 2310160035). She alleges that AT&T failed to remove a fraudulent account from her NCTUE credit file and reports, in violation of the FCRA, despite being aware that identity thieves, not she, opened the fraudulent account.