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Court orderOctober 5, 2026Hobbs v. Meta Platforms, Inc. · S.D.N.Y. 1:26-cv-04314

Hobbs v. Meta is transferred out of New York after the judge signs the parties' transfer stipulation

The New York federal court's docket shows that on Oct. 5, 2026 a "Stipulation and Order" was entered in Hobbs v. Meta (Dkt. 36), after a memo endorsement the same day (Dkt. 35), and that the case was then marked as transferred out to another district. On Oct. 2 the parties had told Judge Engelmayer that the plaintiffs agreed to stipulate to a transfer to the Northern District of California, following the Sept. 25 transfer of the publishers' suit, Elsevier v. Meta, and asked him to approve the stipulation. As proposed, the stipulation also vacated the defendants' Oct. 7 deadline to respond to the amended complaint, with a new date to be set by the California court. The signed order itself is not yet publicly available on CourtListener, so its exact terms are not confirmed here, and the case's new California docket number has not yet appeared.

Stipulation and Order, Dkt. 36, Oct. 5, 2026 (CourtListener docket entry) ↗Memo endorsement, Dkt. 35, Oct. 5, 2026 (CourtListener docket entry) ↗Joint letter, Dkt. 34, Oct. 2, 2026 (CourtListener docket entry) ↗

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