In addition, Frantz Law Group successfully represents nearly 1,000 school districts in 38 states with respect to the anti-vaping JUUL litigation. Despite the proposed partial settlement with JUUL Labs, Inc., Frantz Law Group continues litigation against Altria and other defendants responsible for causing the vaping epidemic. Feeley, Jef., and Nayak, Malathi. “ JUUL Agrees to Pay $1.2 Billion in Youth- Vaping Settlement. ” Bloomberg News, 9 Dec. 2022 | Reuters How will filing a lawsuit against social media companies benefit your public entity? Suing social media companies provides public entities the opportunity to recover financial reimbursement for the expenses the public entities have incurred because of the youth mental health crisis. Some entities have spent thousands of dollars, countless hours, and other important resources to implement or adjust their methods of supervising students, disciplining student behavior, and assisting addicted students who are constantly accessing social media platforms on school property. Even if your public entity has not yet expended substantial resources to deal with this problem, investigating claims and potentially filing a lawsuit can assist to obtain the “future damages” to mitigate the social media-caused mental health crisis present in your public entity. Beyond the opportunity for financial recovery, public entity participation in this litigation is critical. Social media companies have targeted children with addictive and harmful products that feature no warnings or instructions for safe usage. Public entities have been especially impacted and are in a unique position to take a stand against this misconduct. Public entities joining together in this litigation will play a pivotal role in holding social media companies accountable and sending the message to these companies that profits should not be prioritized at the expense of children’s health and safety. Social media companies need to be held accountable for the harm they are causing, and should provide schools with financial resources to mitigate this mental health crisis on the front lines.
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