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AllegationOctober 21, 2026Kadrey v. Meta Platforms, Inc. / Hobbs v. Meta Platforms, Inc. · N.D. Cal. 3:23-cv-03417; Hobbs now N.D. Cal. 3:26-cv-11420

Authors in Hobbs v. Meta, transferred from New York, ask that their suit be assigned to Judge Chhabria alongside Kadrey, and say Meta agrees

The Hobbs plaintiffs, whose class action over Meta's torrenting of LibGen and Anna's Archive was transferred from the Southern District of New York on Oct. 5, filed an administrative motion in Kadrey on Oct. 21, 2026 (Dkt. 875) asking that Hobbs be reassigned to Judge Chhabria as a related case. They say both suits concern Meta's training of Llama on pirated books and journal articles downloaded by torrent, and that Hobbs also alleges distribution and removal of copyright management information. The motion states that the Hobbs defendants agree the cases are related. It follows the publishers' similar request in the Elsevier case a week earlier. The court has not ruled.

Administrative motion to relate cases, Kadrey Dkt. 875 (Oct. 21, 2026) ↗

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