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AllegationOctober 14, 2026Kadrey v. Meta Platforms, Inc. / Elsevier Inc. v. Meta Platforms, Inc. · N.D. Cal. 3:23-cv-03417; Elsevier now N.D. Cal. 4:26-cv-11415

Publishers ask that their transferred suit against Meta be assigned to Judge Chhabria alongside Kadrey, and say Meta agrees

Elsevier, Cengage, Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, S.C.R.I.B.E. and Scott Turow, whose suit against Meta and Mark Zuckerberg was transferred from New York last month, filed an administrative motion in Kadrey (Dkt. 871) asking that their case, now N.D. Cal. No. 4:26-cv-11415, be reassigned to Judge Chhabria as a related case. They say both suits concern Meta's training of Llama on downloaded collections of pirated books and journal articles and its torrenting, and that keeping them before one judge avoids duplicated work and conflicting results. The motion states that Meta agrees the cases are related. Responses are due Oct. 19. If granted, the publishers' class action would join the Meta cases Judge Chhabria is managing, where the first trial is set for May 3, 2027. The court has not ruled.

Administrative motion to relate cases, Kadrey Dkt. 871 (Oct. 14, 2026) ↗

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