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SONAL N. MEHTA (SBN 222086)
Sonal.Mehta@wilmerhale.com
WILMER CUTLER PICKERING HALE AND DORR LLP
2600 El Camino Real, Suite 400
Palo Alto, California 94306
Telephone: (650) 858-6000
Facsimile: (650) 858-6100
ARI HOLTZBLATT (pro hac vice)
Ari.Holtzblatt@wilmerhale.com
MOLLY M. JENNINGS (pro hac vice)
Molly.Jennings@wilmerhale.com
ALLISON SCHULTZ (pro hac vice)
Allison.Schultz@wilmerhale.com
WILMER CUTLER PICKERING HALE AND DORR LLP
1875 Pennsylvania Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20006
Telephone: (202) 663-6000
Facsimile: (202) 663-6363
Attorneys for Defendants
FACEBOOK, INC. and MARK ZUCKERBERG
ADDITIONAL COUNSEL LISTED ON
FOLLOWING PAGE
ROGER I. TEICH (SBN 147076)
rteich@juno.com
290 Nevada Street
San Francisco, California 94110
Telephone: (415) 948-0045
ROBERT F. KENNEDY, JR. (pro hac vice)
MARY HOLLAND (pro hac vice)
mary.holland@childrenshealthdefense.org
Children’s Health Defense
1227 North Peachtree Parkway, Suite 202
Peachtree City, GA 30269
Telephone: (917) 743-3868
Attorneys for Plaintiff
CHILDREN’S HEALTH DEFENSE
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION
CHILDREN’S HEALTH DEFENSE,
Plaintiff,
v.
FACEBOOK, INC. et al.,
Defendants.
Case No. 3:20-cv-05787-SI
JOINT CASE MANAGEMENT
STATEMENT AND PROPOSED ORDER
Date: May 5, 2021
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Place: Videoconference
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KEVIN L. VICK (SBN 220738)
kvick@jassyvick.com
ELIZABETH HOLLAND BALDRIDGE (SBN 313390)
ebaldridge@jassyvick.com
JASSY VICK CAROLAN LLP
800 Wilshire Blvd.
Suite 800
Los Angeles, California 90017
Telephone: (310) 870-7048
Facsimile: (310) 870-7010
CAROL JEAN LOCICERO (pro hac vice)
clocicero@tlolawfirm.com
MARK R. CARAMANICA (pro hac vice)
mcaramanica@tlolawfirm.com
THOMAS & LOCICERO PL
601 South Boulevard
Tampa, Florida 33606
Telephone: (813) 984-3060
Facsimile: (813) 984-3070
DANIELA B. ABRATT (pro hac vice)
dabratt@tlolawfirm.com
THOMAS & LOCICERO PL
915 Middle River Drive, Suite 309
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33304
Telephone: (954) 703-3418
Facsimile: (954) 400-5415
Attorneys for Defendant
THE POYNTER INSTITUTE FOR MEDIA
STUDIES, INC.
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Telephonic conferences in anticipation of a November 20, 2020 case management conference
were held on October 30 and November 2, 2020 between Roger Teich and Mary S. Holland, counsel for
Plaintiff Children’s Health Defense (“CHD”), Sonal N. Mehta, counsel for Defendants Facebook, Inc.
and Mark Zuckerberg, and Carol J. LoCicero, counsel for Defendant The Poynter Institute for Media
Studies, Inc. (“Poynter”). Pursuant to the Court’s August 27, 2020 Initial Case Management Guideline
and Clerk’s Notice, the Standing Order for All Judges of the Northern District of California and Civil
Local Rule 16-9, and Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(f), the Parties further met and conferred on
March 10, 2021, and now file this Joint Case Management Statement and Proposed Order in anticipation
of the Case Management Conference pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 16(b) and Civil L. R. 16-10, scheduled
for May 5, 2021, at 10:30 a.m., and conducted via Zoom.
1.
Jurisdiction and Service.
This Court has personal jurisdiction over all defendants because they allegedly conducted
business with and allegedly injured Plaintiff CHD in this District. Facebook itself is headquartered
within the District, which is also where the individual Defendant and at least some of the Doe
defendants reside.
The Court has subject matter jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1331 (federal question), §
1332(a) (complete diversity of the Parties, and the amount in controversy exceeds $75,000), § 2201
(declaratory relief), and § 2202 (further relief). The action asserts continuing violations of the First and
Fifth Amendments, 18 U.S.C. §§ 1964(a), (c) of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations
Act (“RICO”), and 15 U.S.C. § 1125(a) (Lanham Act), and there is an actual case or controversy.
Venue is proper under 18 U.S.C. §1965(a) and 28 U.S.C. § 1391(b) because Defendants
allegedly transacted a substantial portion of their affairs and allegedly caused damages in this district.
Moreover, Facebook’s Terms of Service (“Terms”) to which Plaintiff agreed, require that disputes be
resolved in this forum and that the laws of the State of California apply. Terms at ¶ 4(4).
CHD states that, despite multiple prior attempts, it has not yet served Defendant Science
Feedback, a French corporation, located in Paris, France. A new summons for a newly-ascertained
address of Defendant Science Feedback was issued by the Court on October 20, 2020 (Dkt. #53). On
December 15, 2021, CHD filed a Second Amended Complaint (“SAC”) with consent. (Dkt. ##65-1, 67.)
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On March 1, 2021, CHD transmitted its Request for Service of Judicial Documents, which includes
French translations of the SAC and its exhibits, and all other service documents, to the French authority
designated under the Hague Service Convention in order to effectuate service on Science Feedback by
that method.
2.
Facts.
A.
Plaintiff’s Description of the Case.
As public health advocates, CHD and its founder Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (“RFK, Jr.”) have built
reputations as candid purveyors of essential information concerning the risks of environmental toxins,
vaccines, 5G and wireless networks, and the conflicts of interest involved in government oversight of
those products and services. CHD, through a rigorous internal review process, carefully reviews and
verifies material before it publishes such material on its website, its newsletter, and social media
platforms, including Facebook.
Facebook has promoted itself as a social media website for people “to talk openly about the
issues that matter to them, even if some may disagree or find them objectionable.” Community
Standards, FACEBOOK, https://www.facebook.com/communitystandards/ (last visited Nov. 12, 2020).
CHD disputes that this is how Facebook actually operates. Facebook has 214 million users in the United
States and 2.2 billion worldwide. Users incur the cost of having their information mined and shared.
Bass v. Facebook, Inc., 394 F. Supp. 3d 1024, 1037 (N.D. Cal. 2019).
In or about November 2017, CHD agreed to Facebook’s Terms to create CHD’s Facebook page
in an effort to broaden CHD’s internet visibility and reach, make its online library more widely-
accessible, and increase its fundraising platform. CHD was successful in recruiting followers, driving
traffic to its website, and fundraising through Facebook, amassing over 100,000 followers. CHD has not
posted any content on its Facebook page that breached Facebook’s terms or community standards or was
otherwise “unlawful, misleading, discriminatory or fraudulent.” Terms at ¶ 3(2)(1).
Beginning in or about February 2019, Facebook, in concert with Democratic Congressman
Adam Schiff (D-CA), “privatized” the First Amendment to impermissibly censor speech. Schiff
threatened Facebook with loss of “service provider” immunity from liability under the Communications
Decency Act (“CDA”) 47 U.S.C. § 230(c)(1) unless Facebook implemented algorithms to “distinguish”
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and suppress “vaccine misinformation” and advertising. Facebook then collaborated closely and at
length with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) and, under the CDC’s aegis, with
the World Health Organization (“WHO”) to suppress vaccine safety speech with a “warning label” and
other notices that censor valid and truthful speech, including speech critical of the WHO and CDC and
their policies. As set forth in the SAC, the United States government seeks through Facebook to engage
in censorship that the government is prohibited by the First Amendment from engaging in directly.
Facebook also receives substantial advertising revenue from pharmaceutical companies, and Facebook
and Zuckerberg have substantial investments and revenue relating to 5G and vaccines.
Beginning in March 2019 and increasingly since that time, Defendants – including Facebook,
Mark Zuckerberg (“Zuckerberg”), and “fact checkers” such as Defendants The Poynter Institute for
Media Studies (“Poynter”) (and its brand, Politifact) and Science Feedback – have engaged in efforts to
disparage and defraud CHD, to cause CHD to lose money and goodwill and reputation, and to obtain for
Defendants themselves, or for their affiliated non-profit “fact-checker” or public health entities, money
and property through three principal methods: (A) making materially false statements; (B) failing to
disclose material facts; and (C) creating a materially deceptive scheme. Defendants have created the
false appearance to all third-party users that CHD violates Facebook’s Terms by publishing “false
information” about vaccine and 5G network safety, and Defendants have used that false rationale as a
basis to deactivate CHD’s direct fundraising and reject its paid advertisements, censor CHD’s content
and user posts, publish materially false or misleading content on CHD’s page, “shadow ban” CHD and
“sandbox” third-party users. CHD has not posted any false information, promoted any false content, or
violated any fundraising or other terms of service. Facebook’s false and fraudulent actions and
statements drive traffic from CHD’s page to the CDC’s page, while advancing Facebook’s significant
adverse business interests.
Further, on or about May 1, 2019, Facebook permanently disabled the “dispute” function on
CHD’s account so that CHD could not challenge Facebook’s actions through direct submission. Indeed,
over the past twenty-two months Facebook has ignored CHD’s written requests that both its content and
full functionality be restored to CHD’s page.
Even after CHD filed its complaint and the amended complaints, Defendants continued to “fact
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check” and censor CHD’s Facebook page while at the same time promoting the CDC, WHO, and similar
organizations from CHD’s Facebook page. Similarly, Facebook is now taking action against RFK, Jr.,
the Chairman of the Board of CHD.
On February 10, 2021 Facebook de-platformed RFK, Jr. from Facebook-owned social media site
Instagram, on which RFK, Jr. had over 800,000 followers. As purported justification for this action,
Facebook apparently communicated to the media that RFK, Jr. has “repeatedly shared debunked claims
about the coronavirus or vaccines.” See Bill Chappell, Instagram Bars Robert F. Kennedy Jr. For
Spreading Vaccine Misinformation, NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO (February 11, 2021).
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/02/11/966902737/instagram-bars-robert-f-
kennedy-jr-for-spreading-vaccine-misinformation. CHD’s counsel asked Facebook to retract the
statement but, to date, Facebook has not done so. Only a few days after the February 10 de-platforming,
the Biden Administration began making statements about its efforts to censor what it considers
“misinformation” or “disinformation” concerning COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2 vaccines, including its
partnership with the private sector.
In February 2021, various news outlets published articles discussing Facebook’s continuing role
as a government surrogate in censoring Plaintiff, RFK, Jr., and others. See e.g., Jesse O’Neil, White
House working with social media giants to silence antivaxxers, NEW YORK POST (Feb. 19, 2021),
https://nypost.com/2021/02/19/white-houseworking-with-social-media-to-silence-anti-vaxxers/; Nandita
Bose, Exclusive: White House working with Facebook and Twitter to tackle anti-vaxxers, REUTERS
(Feb. 20, 2021), https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-white-house-
exclusiveidINKBN2AK0HP; Glenn Greenwald, Congress Escalates Pressure on Tech Giants to Censor
More, Threatening the First Amendment, SUBSTACK (Feb. 20, 2021),
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/congress-escalates-pressure-on-tech. It should be noted that Plaintiff
and RFK, Jr. dispute and reject the use of the inaccurate term “anti-vaxxers” to the extent it is used to
describe either Plaintiff or RFK, Jr..1
In one article, a Facebook spokesperson acknowledged that “the company has reached out to the
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CHD contends that the term “anti-vaxxer” is a slur used to denigrate the good faith of anyone
who dares to question official orthodoxy on vaccine safety, efficacy, or oversight.
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White House to offer ‘any assistance we can provide . . . ’” Nandita Bose, Exclusive: White House
working with Facebook and Twitter to tackle anti-vaxxers, REUTERS (Feb. 20, 2021),
https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-white-house-exclusiveidINKBN2AK0HP.
B.
Defendants’ Description of the Case.
Facebook has developed an independent, third-party fact-checking program to identify false or
misleading information on its platform. Through that program, Facebook’s independent fact-
checkers—including Science Feedback and PolitiFact (a service operated by Poynter)—identify and
review Facebook posts containing potential misinformation. After reviewing potential misinformation,
fact-checkers can identify it as either false, altered, partly false, missing context, satire, or true. The
fact-checkers also provide explanations for their determinations.
When users share content that Facebook’s fact-checkers have determined includes false or partly
false information, Facebook displays labels on top of the content showing the fact-checker’s
determination. Users can click a “See Link” button to see the shared content, and can also click a button
to “See Why” the link was identified by Facebook’s fact-checkers as containing “false” or “partly false”
information. Upon clicking the “See Why” button, users see a summary providing the fact-checker’s
designation (such as “false,” or “partly false”), a definition of that designation, the fact checker
responsible for the designation, and a brief explanation for the designation. Users are then able to click
on that summary for more detail regarding the fact-checker’s explanation for the designation.
In addition to the fact-check labels, content rated as false or partly false also appears lower in
users’ News Feed. Similarly, Facebook may take action against Pages that repeatedly share information
that fact-checkers identify as false, including by reducing the distribution of such Pages or removing
their ability to advertise or solicit donations on Facebook. Specifically, Facebook announced in March
2019 that it would reduce the ranking of Pages that spread misinformation about vaccinations in
Facebook’s News Feed and Search functions, and would remove such Pages’ access to fundraising tools.
Six months later, Facebook also began providing links to the WHO’s website and other authoritative
sources of vaccine-related information in response to searches for vaccine-related information and in
connection with Pages identified by Facebook’s fact-checkers to have repeatedly shared false vaccine-
related information.
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Between January 15, 2019, and September 28, 2020, Facebook’s third-party fact-checkers
identified a number of CHD vaccine and public-health related posts as containing false or partly false
information. As a result, Facebook labeled those posts in accordance with the fact-checkers’
designations, and provided users with the fact-checkers’ explanations for those designations. With
respect to the single Poynter fact-check at issue in this suit, CHD points to a fact-check conducted on an
article CHD posted on its Facebook page that was authored by a third-party. Poynter rated the headline
to that article’s headline as “false” and the third-party subsequently corrected the headline consistent
with Poynter’s fact-check critique. Facebook also took action against CHD at the account level in light
of its repeated violation of Facebook’s policy against sharing misleading vaccine-related information, as
identified by Facebook’s fact-checkers. In May 2019, for example, Facebook deactivated the “donate”
button on CHD’s Page and barred CHD from buying any new Facebook ads. Then, in September 2019,
Facebook published the following text at the top of CHD’s Facebook Page: “This Page posts about
vaccines. When it comes to health, everyone wants reliable, up-to-date information. The Centers for
Disease Control (CDC) has information that can help answer questions you may have about vaccines.
Go to CDC.gov.”
3.
Legal Issues.
The principal legal issues in dispute are:
• Whether Defendants, private entities and individuals, whom CHD alleges acted herein as
federal actors, violated CHD’s First and Fifth Amendment rights by, among other things,
purportedly censoring CHD’s content, displaying the fact-checks and/or account-level
warnings on CHD’s Page, reducing the distribution of or removing some of CHD’s content,
and removing CHD’s donate function, restricting access to fundraising tools and advertising,
and engaging in other conduct as alleged in the supplemented SAC.
• Whether Defendants violated the Lanham Act’s false advertising provision, 15 U.S.C.
§ 1125(a), by, among other things, displaying the fact-checks and/or account-level warnings
on CHD’s Facebook Page and engaging in other conduct as alleged in the supplemented
SAC.
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• Whether Defendants’ acts violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act
(“RICO”) by, among other things, displaying the fact-checks and/or account-level warnings
on CHD’s Facebook Page and engaging in other conduct as alleged in the supplemented
SAC.
• Whether the First Amendment bars CHD’s claims.
• Whether Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act bars CHD’s claims.
• Whether CHD is entitled to declaratory, injunctive and/or monetary relief.
4.
Motions.
1. On September 10, 2020, Plaintiff CHD filed a motion for a case management order and
for substituted service pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 4(f)(3). Dkt. No. 28.
That motion was denied. Dkt. No. 48.
2. On October 23, 2020, Defendants filed motions to dismiss the complaint, Dkt. Nos. 54 &
56, which were mooted when Plaintiff filed a First Amended Complaint on November
13, 2020.
3. On December 4, 2020, Plaintiff CHD moved to file its SAC (Dkt. #65). Defendants
consented to that motion (Dkt. # 66).
4. Motions to Dismiss
a. On December 21, 2020, Facebook and Zuckerberg moved to dismiss CHD’s SAC
against them (Dkt. #69), as did Poynter (Dkt. #68).
b. On February 5, 2020, CHD filed its oppositions to Facebook’s and Zuckerberg’s
motion to dismiss (Dkt. #71) and Poynter’s motion to dismiss (Dkt. #70).
c. On March 5, 2020, Facebook and Zuckerberg filed their reply (Dkt. #74), as did
Poynter (Dkt. #73).
d. These motions currently are scheduled for oral argument before the Court on May
5, 2021.
5. Motion for Leave to Supplement the SAC
a. On March 8, 2021, CHD filed a Motion for Leave to Supplement the SAC (Dkt.
#76) and a Motion to Shorten Time (Dkt. #75), under Fed. R. Civ. Pro. 15(d),
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which “permit[s] a party to serve a supplemental pleading setting out any
transaction, occurrence, or event that happened after the date of the pleading to be
supplemented” with leave of the Court. CHD seeks leave to supplement the SAC,
setting forth newly-occurred facts, including recent adverse actions which
Facebook has taken against CHD and/or RFK, Jr., and recent White House
officials’ statements concerning government involvement with social media
companies in speech censorship on their platforms. The motion to shorten time
was mooted by the Court’s scheduling orders.
b. On March 11, 2021, Facebook opposed the Motion to Shorten Time (Dkt. #77).
c. On March 22, 2021, Defendants filed their Oppositions to Plaintiff’s Motion for
Leave to Supplement the SAC. Defendants oppose the motion to supplement as
futile, arguing that CHD acted with undue delay. Defendants argue that the
proposed supplemental allegations do not entitle CHD to any relief, and in any
event could have been alleged well before the parties completed briefing
Defendants’ motions to dismiss the SAC. Defendants alternatively ask the Court
to dismiss the Supplement with prejudice for the reasons set forth in their motions
to dismiss. On April 6, 2021, Defendants Facebook and Zuckerberg filed a Notice
of Recent Decision (Dkt. #85).
d. On March 29, 2021, CHD filed its reply on its Motion for Leave to Supplement
the SAC (Dkt. #84), arguing that the supplement is not dilatory nor made in bad
faith, and would not prejudice Defendants. CHD further argued that the motion is
not futile, that CHD has standing to raise arguments with respect to Facebook’s
de-platforming of RFK, Jr. from Instagram, and that the supplemental allegations
further support all of Plaintiff’s claims. This motion currently is scheduled for
oral argument before the Court on May 5, 2021.
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Amendment of Pleadings.
At this time, aside from the above-discussed Motion to Supplement the SAC, Plaintiff does not
contemplate further amendment of the SAC, but reserves the right to request the Court’s leave to do so
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should circumstances warrant.
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Evidence Preservation.
The Parties have reviewed the Guidelines Relating to the Discovery of Electronically Stored
Information (“ESI Guidelines”), and confirm that the Parties have met and conferred pursuant to Fed. R.
Civ. P. 26(f) regarding reasonable and proportionate steps taken to preserve evidence relevant to the
issues reasonably evident in this action.
A.
Plaintiff’s Statement
At the meet and confer held on November 2, 2020, Facebook’s counsel confirmed that
Facebook’s litigation hold includes both internal communications as well as external communications
between Facebook and third parties, including federal government officials and agencies, public health
officials, and its external service providers, regarding strategies to address what Facebook purports to be
“misinformation.”
Following a November 18, 2020 email from Plaintiff’s counsel, Facebook’s and Zuckerberg’s
counsel, by letter dated December 4, 2020, confirmed Facebook and Zuckerberg’s obligations under the
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or the Local Rules of the United States District Court for the Northern
District of California (and without conceding that any information preserved would be “relevant to
CHD’s claims, that its production is proportionate to the needs of the case, or otherwise within the
proper scope of discovery in this matter under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26”) that Facebook
would preserve several categories of documents as requested by Plaintiff’s counsel. In particular,
counsel stated that Facebook would preserve information concerning but not limited to ad purchases by
pharmaceutical companies, and communications between Facebook and those entities relating to
“vaccine hesitancy”, and that its internal managers for Merck, Pfizer, Sanofi, and GlaxoSmithKline were
informed of Facebook’s litigation hold. Facebook’s counsel also confirmed that its client was taking
steps to preserve available data concerning vaccine-related ads placed by Merck, Pfizer, Sanofi, and
GlaxoSmithKline in the Facebook U.S. market. Facebook’s counsel further stated that materials relating
to Facebook’s internal endeavors to test the effectiveness of its various efforts to address posts identified
as containing, in Facebook’s estimation, vaccine “misinformation” are encompassed within Facebook’s
litigation hold. Additionally, counsel confirmed that Facebook is undertaking to preserve available
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information concerning traffic to CHD’s Facebook Page and click-throughs from that page to the CDC’s
website and to the articles drafted by fact-checkers.
Finally, Facebook and Zuckerberg’s counsel also stated that they would send a letter on
Zuckerberg’s behalf to the Chan-Zuckerberg Institute and the Chan-Zuckerberg Biohub requesting that
these entities take reasonable steps to preserve information, dated January 1, 2017 to the present,
concerning or related to (1) any internal development of vaccines, (2) any partnerships with, or funding
provided to, third parties for purposes of development of vaccines, and (3) any internal research into
vaccine hesitancy, or funding provided to third parties for the purpose of researching vaccine hesitancy.
Plaintiff contends that much of, if not the vast majority of, the evidence relevant to the
adjudication of this case rests within the exclusive possession, custody and control of the Defendants.
Plaintiff also anticipates that much of the evidence will be in the form of electronically-stored
information (ESI), making preservation of such evidence a paramount concern. Should additional
disputes arise between Plaintiff and Facebook and Zuckerberg as to the scope of Facebook’s and
Zuckerberg’s preservation obligations, the parties will attempt to settle such disputes among themselves
before seeking judicial intervention pursuant to the Civil Local Rules. Plaintiff further contends that
Defendants’ preservation obligations extend to all communications and other evidence in Defendants’
possession, custody, or control concerning or arising from the facts and circumstances at issue in
Plaintiff’s Motion to File a Supplement to the SAC (Dkt. #76).
On March 24, 2021, Plaintiff’s counsel requested by letter that Facebook confirm that it will
preserve all information and documents linking particular CHD posts with control mechanisms that
blacklist and warn third-party users who “like” or share such posts; algorithms for identifying third-party
users for any warning notifications; design documents used to generate such algorithms and measure
their effectiveness; internal and external communications with government actors or outside private
entities, concerning the development and deployment of such algorithms. Counsel for Facebook did not
respond. Contrary to Defendants’ statement in footnote 2, Plaintiffs disagree as to whether Defendants
have taken reasonable steps to preserve documents and ESI, particularly, whether the scope of what
Defendants consider relevant is adequate. To that end, while CHD hopes to avoid doing so, CHD
specifically reserves the right to seek judicial intervention if necessary to resolve any dispute.
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Defendants have taken reasonable steps to preserve documents and ESI that is relevant to the
issues raised by CHD in this litigation. To the extent that Plaintiff has purported to summarize the
parties’ extensive discussions about preservation, the summary is necessarily incomplete because it does
not include the full context of the parties’ extensive meet and confer on these topics (multiple hours of
phone conversations and multiple letters) which is set forth in transcripts of the parties’ calls and the
correspondence itself. Defendants do not burden the Court with that background here because there is
no issue or dispute for the Court to resolve. Suffice it to say, Defendants have not always agreed with
Plaintiff’s views as to the scope or sources of relevant information in this case or Defendants’
preservation obligations (including the scope of information that Plaintiff contends would be relevant),
but Defendants have engaged in an extraordinarily extensive dialogue with Plaintiff about preservation
issues and have taken reasonable steps to preserve evidence.2
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Disclosures.
The Parties do not agree as to the schedule for exchanging their initial disclosures. Their
respective views are set forth below.
8.
Discovery.
Due to the stipulated stay during pendency of Defendants’ motions to dismiss, no discovery has
been taken to date. The Parties anticipate, upon lifting of that stay, taking depositions and serving
document requests, interrogatories, and requests for admission. Plaintiff anticipates substantial fact and
expert discovery, including depositions. Defendants believe it is premature to delimit the scope of expert
discovery until the scope of the case is more precisely determined following disposition of the motions
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CHD’s reference to its March 24 correspondence is beside the point. Defendants are already
taking reasonable steps to preserve evidence, including all the information Defendants have explained
they are preserving over multiple phone calls and in multiple letters. Defendants are also taking
reasonable steps to preserve information based on CHD’s proposed supplemental pleading. To address
that supplemental pleading, Defendants asked CHD to provide additional factual information about the
unidentified screenshot attached to the supplemental pleading as Exhibit 6. Rather than respond, CHD
sought to reopen already-settled (after multiple hours of meet and confer) questions as to evidence
preservation. To the extent CHD has specific information about that exhibit that it can provide, it should
provide Defendants with that information. Otherwise, the parties have already had lengthy and extensive
discussions on evidence preservation well beyond anything required under the local rules.
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A.
Rule 26(f)(1): What changes should be made in the timing, form, or requirement for
disclosures under Rule 26(a), including a statement as to when disclosures under
subdivision (a)(1) were made or will be made?
The Parties will exchange initial disclosures within 21 days of the Court’s lifting of the discovery
stay, or oral ruling or written order on Defendants’ motions to dismiss.
i.
Plaintiff’s Statement
Plaintiff requests that the Court lift the discovery stay at the May 5, 2021 hearing and
conference, such that the Parties’ initial disclosures will be due by May 26, 2021.
ii.
Defendants’ Statement
Consistent with the stipulation previously agreed to by the parties and entered by this Court, see
Dkt. 63, Defendants respectfully request that discovery remain stayed unless and until the court denies
Defendants’ pending motions to dismiss.
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Rule 26(f)(2): The subjects on which discovery may be needed, when
discovery should be completed, and whether discovery should be conducted
in phases or be limited to or focused upon particular issues.
i.
Plaintiff’s Statement
Discovery will be taken on the issues of fact identified above and in the supplemented SAC as
well as affirmative defenses or counterclaims, if any, raised by Defendants. Plaintiff does not believe
that discovery should be phased, limited, or focused on particular issues. In the event the discovery stay
is lifted on May 5, 2021, CHD will ask that discovery be taken and completed by February 18, 2022.
ii.
Defendants’ Statement
The scope of the case moving forward remains highly uncertain. It is unclear whether and to
what extent any of CHD’s claims, which have now been serially amended, can survive Defendants’ First
Amendment, Section 230, and other challenges as raised in their respective motions to dismiss. CHD has
also stated that RFK, Jr. anticipates filing a lawsuit relating to the suspension of his Instagram account,
which CHD has stated it will seek to consolidate with this action. Defendants’ position is that, in the
event that the Court denies in part or in full Defendants’ motions to dismiss, the parties should meet and
confer to address appropriate discovery limitations that are tailored to the scope of the claims and issues
that remain in the case at that point and respectfully request that the Court set a Further Case
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Management Conference for 30 days (or another date convenient for the Court) after any order denying
in part or in full the pending motions to dismiss.
C.
Rule 26(f)(3): Any issues relating to disclosure of discovery of electronically
stored information, including the form or forms in which it should be
produced.
The Parties should meet and confer and submit a proposed ESI Order to the Court within 14 days
of the Court’s oral or written ruling on the Defendants’ motions to dismiss and Plaintiff’s motion to
supplement the SAC, and lifting of the discovery stay.
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Rule 26(f)(4): Any issues relating to claims of privilege or of protection as to
trial-preparation material, including if the Parties agree on a procedure to
assert such claims after production whether to ask the court to include their
agreement in the order.
i.
Plaintiff’s Statement
The Parties should meet and confer and submit a proposed protective order to the Court within
14 days of the Court’s oral or written ruling on the Defendants’ motions to dismiss and Plaintiff’s
motion to supplement the SAC, and lifting of the discovery stay.
ii.
Defendants’ Statement
If discovery opens, a protective order will be necessary in this case because the Parties anticipate
that discovery would include confidential information. Defendants will provide to Plaintiff a proposed
protective order within 14 days of any order lifting the discovery stay, and the Parties will work toward
submitting a final proposed protective order to the Court for approval. The Parties do not currently
anticipate any issues relating to claims of privilege or of protection as to trial-preparation material, but
will address any such issues in the event they arise.
E.
Rule 26(f)(6): Any other orders that should be entered by the court under
Rule 26(c) or under Rule 16 (b) and (c).
The Parties have no such request at this time.
F.
Rule 26(f)(5): What changes should be made in the limitations on discovery
imposed under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or the Local Rules, and
what other limitations should be imposed?
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Plaintiff’s Statement
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Plaintiff does not believe that Defendants’ request for a Further Case Management Conference should be
permitted to delay further the initiation of discovery procedures in this case.
ii.
Defendants’ Statement
Defendants submit that the parties should meet and confer after the Court’s decision on the
pending motions to dismiss to address appropriate discovery limitations that are tailored to the scope of
the claims and issues that remain in the case at that point and respectfully request that the Court set a
Further Case Management Conference for 30 days (or another date convenient for the Court) after any
order denying in part or in full the pending motions to dismiss. For example, it may be appropriate to
establish particular limits on written discovery, discovery into ESI, and Rule 30(b)(6) depositions,
depending on the scope of the case.
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Related Cases.
A. Plaintiff’s Statement
There are currently no pending related cases. In its Rule 15(d) Motion, Plaintiff has raised the
chilling effects on its own free speech rights and other harms to CHD resulting from the fact that, on
February 10, 2021, Facebook took down the Instagram account of RFK, Jr., CHD’s Founder and
Chairman of the Board. Facebook owns Instagram, another social media platform. Plaintiff also raised
allegations of recent statements by White House officials that address the government’s “direct
engagement” with social media companies in censoring speech on their platforms. On February 24,
2021, RFK, Jr. sent a letter to Facebook’s counsel demanding a retraction of Facebook’s statement that
he has “repeatedly shared debunked claims about the coronavirus or vaccines.” In that letter, RFK, Jr.
also offered to submit the matter for a hearing before Facebook’s Oversight Board and proposed a
tolling agreement so that, if necessary, RFK, Jr. could later pursue his legal remedies in court without
prejudice. Counsel for the Parties exchanged correspondence, but did not agree on a means of alternate
dispute resolution for that matter.
Plaintiff disputes, contrary to Defendants’ assertion below, that The Informed Consent Action
Network v. YouTube LLC, 4:20-cv-09456-JST (the “ICAN case”) is a “related” case to the instant action.
There is, in particular, only one party (Facebook) in common between the two cases, and an additional
defendant (YouTube) not present here. Additionally, the ICAN case pleads only one cause of action (a
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action as pleaded here, and does not seek the same forms of relief sought by CHD here. In particular,
while both complaints seek (different) injunctive/declaratory relief as well as attorney fees, costs and
expenses, the SAC seeks substantial additional relief for CHD, including compensatory, treble, and
punitive damages.
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Defendants’ Statement
A case pending before Judge Tigar—The Informed Consent Action Network v. YouTube LLC,
4:20-cv-09456-JST—raises related issues regarding social-media platform’s liability for content-
moderation decisions.
As to Plaintiff’s statement that RFK, Jr. anticipates filing suit, Plaintiff has never articulated any
claim or basis for any claim relating to Instagram’s suspension of RFK, Jr. If such a suit is ultimately
filed, Facebook will review the allegations and address whether they are related or not as appropriate
under the Local Rules. Moreover, Poynter would never be a proper party in any potential suit related to
RFK, Jr. and his Instagram account thus it has no bearing on the resolution of the claims made against
Poynter in this suit.
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Relief.
CHD in its SAC seeks the following relief:
a)
Compensatory damages in an amount to be determined by the Jury, but not less
than $5,000,000. Among other things, damages will be based on the following:
Plaintiff has lost third-party donations to Plaintiff’s organization, speaker fees,
and book and other sales that would have accrued to Plaintiff but for Defendants’
misconduct. Additionally, as set forth in the SAC, Plaintiff was deprived of
freedom of speech; suffered reputational harm; was foreclosed from future
opportunities to reach subscribers on Facebook; and lost status and prestige
among Facebook followers, the general public and the journalistic community.
b)
An award of treble damages to Plaintiff in an amount to be determined at trial;
c)
An injunction and declaratory judgment ordering Facebook to remove its
allegedly materially misleading warning labels and misclassification of all content
on Plaintiff’s Facebook page, and to desist from any further or future warnings or
classifications;
d)
An award of attorneys’ fees and costs to Plaintiff in an amount to be determined
at trial;
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An award of punitive damages to Plaintiff in an amount to be determined at trial;
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An order requiring defendants to make a public retraction of their false
statements, as well as such other and further relief deemed appropriate by the
Court.
Defendants’ position is that CHD is not entitled to any relief because its claims are barred on
multiple constitutional and statutory grounds. As to relief requested by Defendants, Defendants’ time to
answer the SAC has not yet run. Defendants will include any counterclaims in their answers, if they are
filed.
11.
Settlement and ADR.
The Parties have met and conferred regarding both settlement and ADR. Currently, the Parties
are not able to settle this matter, particularly in light of Defendants’ pending motions to dismiss.
Similarly, the Parties do not believe that ADR would be beneficial and a good use of the Parties’
resources at this time given the pending motions to dismiss, and that no discovery has taken place to
date. To the Parties’ knowledge, this case has not been referred to the ADR Multi-Option Program.
12.
Consent to Magistrate Judge For All Purposes.
Whether all Parties will consent to have a magistrate judge conduct all further proceedings
including trial and entry of judgment.
___ Yes
X No
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Other References.
The parties do not believe that this case is suitable for reference to binding arbitration, a special
master, or the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation.
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Narrowing of Issues.
At this juncture the Parties have been unable to narrow the issues by agreement, though
Defendants’ position is that the issues may be narrowed substantially (if not eliminated in their entirety)
after a ruling on their motions to dismiss. Plaintiff’s position is that the motions to dismiss should be
denied in their entirety and thus would not result in a narrowing of issues. However, upon lifting of the
discovery stay, Plaintiff will serve Requests for Admission to attempt to narrow issues and expedite the
presentation of evidence at trial; Defendants’ position is that they will proceed with discovery as
appropriate once the scope of the case is determined.
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Expedited Trial Procedure.
The Parties agree that this is not a case appropriate for the Expedited Trial Procedure of General
Order No. 64 Attachment A. Scheduling.
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Proposed dates for designation of experts, discovery cutoff, hearing of dispositive
motions, pretrial conference and trial.
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Plaintiff’s Statement.
Plaintiff believes that an expedited pretrial schedule is warranted here in light of the compelling
First Amendment interests involved, the alleged escalating retaliatory conduct of Defendants described
herein and in CHD’s Motion to Supplement, and the need for declaratory relief to clarify and enforce
Plaintiff’s rights. Accordingly, Plaintiff proposes the following:
Exchange of Initial Disclosures
May 26, 2021
Designation of Experts
October 22, 2021
Discovery to be completed by
February 18, 2022
Dispositive Motions to be filed by
April 22, 2022
Final Pre-Trial Conference
June 20, 2022
Trial
July 25, 2022
Plaintiff disputes and denies the accuracy of Defendants’ argumentative statements and allegations in
Section 17(B), below.
B.
Defendants’ Statement.
In light of the pending motions to dismiss and uncertainty as to the scope of this case following
the motions to dismiss phase (including Plaintiff’s statement that RFK, Jr. intends to file a new suit and
seek to consolidate it with this one), Defendants respectfully submit that it is premature to establish
dates for the designation of experts, discovery cutoffs, a pretrial conference, and trial. In the event that
the pending motions to dismiss are denied in whole or in part, the parties will meet and confer on a
proposed schedule in light of the scope of claims and issues that remain in the case at that point, and
respectfully request that the Court set a Further Case Management Conference for 30 days (or another
date convenient for the Court) after the order resolving the pending motions to dismiss.
In any case, and even to the extent that the Court is inclined to set a schedule at this juncture,
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Plaintiff’s schedule is untenable. After serially amending its pleading and repeatedly negotiating
extended schedules for briefing on Defendants’ motions to dismiss (insisting for example, that CHD
have from December 21 to February 5 to file its oppositions), Plaintiff’s suggestion that there is now
some urgency to getting this case rings hollow. There is no emergency here, and certainly no reason to
impose the burden of compressed and expedited proceedings on Defendants.
This is especially true because CHD’s evolving and unfocused allegations and assertions as to
the scope of relevant information raise serious concerns that CHD may seek sweeping discovery into
factual allegations far afield of the core legal issues in this case. There is perhaps no better evidence of
the how unfocused CHD’s allegations are than its own initial estimate that the trial in this matter will
take four weeks, which CHD has now revised to three weeks. And because CHD appears to believe that
the “vast majority” of relevant information will come from Defendants, CHD’s proposal to complete
fact discovery in only five months would put a disproportionate burden on Defendants that is not
justified in these circumstances. Likewise, CHD appears to contemplate “substantial” expert discovery
but proposes that all of that discovery take place in just four months, while fact discovery is still
ongoing.
Defendants respectfully submit that the Court’s ruling on the motions to dismiss will provide
critical guidance to the scope of the claims, if any, that will go forward and that the parties and the Court
will be much better positioned to set a reasonable schedule with that information in hand.
17.
Trial.
CHD has requested a trial by jury. CHD anticipates that the trial will last 3 weeks. Defendants
anticipate that a trial will last 7-8 days.
18.
Disclosure of Non-party Interested Entities or Persons.
All corporate Parties have filed disclosures required by Civil Local Rule 3-15. In addition, each
party must restate in the case management statement the contents of its certification by identifying any
persons, firms, partnerships, corporations (including parent corporations) or other entities known by the
party to have either: (i) a financial interest in the subject matter in controversy or in a party to the
proceeding; or (ii) any other kind of interest that could be substantially affected by the outcome of the
proceeding. In any proposed class, collective, or representative action, the required disclosure includes
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any person or entity that is funding the prosecution of any claim or counterclaim. CHD has no
supplemental disclosure to make. Facebook and Poynter are not aware of any persons or entities with a
financial or other interest in the subject matter in controversy other than the named parties.
19.
Professional Conduct.
All attorneys of record for the Parties have reviewed the Guidelines for Professional Conduct for
the Northern District of California.
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Other Matters.
The Parties are not presently aware of any other matters at this time impacting the resolution of
this matter.
Dated: April 29, 2021
By:
/s/ Roger I. Teich
ROGER I. TEICH
Attorney for Plaintiff
Children’s Health Defense
Dated: April 29, 2021
WILMER CUTLER PICKERING, HALE AND
DORR LLP
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SONAL N. MEHTA
Attorney for Defendants
Facebook, Inc. and Mark Zuckerberg
Dated: April 29, 2021
THOMAS & LOCICERO PL
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CAROL JEAN LOCICERO
Attorney for Defendant
The Poynter Institute for Media Studies, Inc.
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CASE MANAGEMENT ORDER
The above JOINT CASE MANAGEMENT STATEMENT & PROPOSED ORDER is approved
as the Case Management Order for this case and all Parties shall comply with its provisions. [In
addition, the Court makes the further orders stated below:]
IT IS SO ORDERED.
Dated:
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
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ATTORNEY ATTESTATION
I, Roger Teich, am the ECF User whose ID and password are being used to file this Stipulation
and accompanying proposed order. In compliance with Civil Local Rule 5-l(i)(3), I hereby attest that
concurrence in the filing of this document and all attachments has been obtained from each signatory.
Dated: April 29, 2021
By:
ROGER I. TEICH
Counsel for Plaintiff
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