NetChoice Renews Motion to Stay Proceedings in Calif. Kids Social Media Bill
NetChoice renewed its motion to stay district court proceedings Tuesday in a case about California’s SB-976, a social media law that the association alleges undermines free speech and privacy principles and leaves Californians at risk of data breaches and identity theft (see 2501060009).
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The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals “will likely make precedential, binding holdings on questions of law at the core of this case, and those will define the scope of any remaining legal issues and factual disputes,” NetChoice said at the U.S. District Court of Northern California. The 9th Circuit is set to hear oral argument in early April.
On Feb. 11, California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) opposed NetChoice’s Jan. 29 motion to stay proceedings on the grounds that “a stay would cause undue delay and would not serve the interest in efficiency shared by both parties and the Court.”