Federal multidistrict litigation tracker

MDL 3047 Update — Social Media Adolescent Addiction Lawsuit

In re: Social Media Adolescent Addiction/Personal Injury Products Liability Litigation. Counts are monthly JPML snapshots and can change between reports.

Lawsuit status — September 2026

Social Media Adolescent Addiction Lawsuit

Verified September 14, 2026

MDL: MDL-3047
Court: N.D. Cal.
Judge: Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers
Pending cases: 3,208; +71 since prior report
Current phase: Separate state-AG, school-district and individual litigation tracks
Settlement status: No public settlement program identified
Latest development: JPML reports 3,208 pending actions on September 1, 2026, compared with 3,137 on August 3; 3,383 total historical actions are reported separately.
Next major event: February 3, 2027 — School-district bellwether jury selection

What changed this month?

●JPML reports 3,208 pending actions on September 1, 2026, compared with 3,137 on August 3; 3,383 total historical actions are reported separately. Source
●The court-linked calendar lists February 8, 2027 for the school-district bellwether jury trial, with jury selection February 3. Source
●The same calendar lists the state attorneys general trial against Meta from August 17, 2026; that schedule is separate from an individual injury trial. Source
●The federal court’s September 8 recent filings list conditional transfer order CTO-87, confirming continuing MDL transfers. Source

MDL details

Created: October 6, 2022
Pending: 3,208
Total actions filed: 3,383
Monthly change: +71

Defendants named in the tracked record

Meta Platforms (Facebook, Instagram); Google LLC / YouTube (Alphabet); TikTok / ByteDance; Snap Inc. (Snapchat). Defendants dispute the allegations.

Historical case counts

Report	Pending	Total filed
September 1, 2026	3,208	3,383
August 3, 2026	3,137	3,312

What the litigation alleges

The tracked claims concern product-liability design-defect and failure-to-warn claim (federal mdl + california jccp), including adolescent mental-health harms (depression, anxiety, self-harm, eating disorders). These are allegations; defendants dispute liability and causation.

Stage and bellwether status

The court-linked MDL Centrality calendar lists an August 17, 2026 start for the state attorneys general trial against Meta and February 8, 2027 for the school-district bellwether jury trial. Those schedules do not establish a verdict or settlement. Federal individual claims and the separate California JCCP must not be confused with these government-plaintiff tracks.

Bellwether record: Listed trial date is distinct from individual personal-injury and California JCCP proceedings.

Settlement status

The federal court page and court-linked MDL Centrality materials reviewed September 14, 2026 do not identify a global personal-injury settlement program or official individual payout schedule. Outcomes in government cases or individual proceedings do not determine what another claimant will receive.

Individual claims: The federal court page and court-linked MDL Centrality materials reviewed September 14, 2026 do not identify a global personal-injury settlement program or official individual payout schedule. Outcomes in government cases or individual proceedings do not determine what another claimant will receive.