Patterson v Meta Platforms, Inc. (2025 NY Slip Op 04446)
Patterson v Meta Platforms, Inc.
2025 NY Slip Op 04446 [240 AD3d 1447]
July 25, 2025
Appellate Division, Fourth Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, September 10, 2025


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 Diona Patterson, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Heyward Patterson, Deceased, et al., Respondents,
v
Meta Platforms, Inc., Formerly Known as Facebook, Inc., et al., Defendants, and MEAN L.L.C., Appellant. (Appeal No. 2.)

Renzulli Law Firm, LLP, White Plains (Jeffrey M. Malsch of counsel), for defendant-appellant.

Law Office of John V. Elmore, P.C., Buffalo (Kristen Elmore-garcia of counsel), Belluck Law, LLP, New York City and Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, for plaintiffs-respondents.

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Erie County (Paula L. Feroleto, J.), entered February 9, 2024. The order denied the motion of defendant MEAN L.L.C. to dismiss the complaint against it.

It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from is unanimously affirmed without costs.

Same memorandum as in Salter v Meta Platforms, Inc. ([appeal No. 1] 1378 [4th Dept 2025]). Present—Lindley, J.P., Curran, Bannister, Smith and Nowak, JJ.