DIONA PATTERSON, INDIVIDUALLY, AND AS ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ESTATE OF HEYWARD PATTERSON - V META PLATFORMS, INC.
Motion No: CA 24-00513
Slip Opinion No: 2025 NY Slip Op 65095(U)
Decided on March 11, 2025
Appellate Division, Fourth Department, Motion Decision
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
This motion is uncorrected and is not subject to publication in the Official Reports.


March 11, 2025

PRESENT: LINDLEY, J.P., CURRAN, SMITH, AND NOWAK, JJ.

CA 24-00513

DIONA PATTERSON, INDIVIDUALLY, AND AS ADMINISTRATOR OF THE

ESTATE OF HEYWARD PATTERSON, ET AL.,

PLAINTIFFS-RESPONDENTS,

V

META PLATFORMS, INC., FORMERLY KNOWN AS FACEBOOK, INC.,

SNAP, INC., ALPHABET, INC., GOOGLE, LLC, YOUTUBE, LLC,

DISCORD, INC., AMAZON.COM, INC., 4CHAN COMMUNITY SUPPORT,

LLC, AND REDDIT, INC., DEFENDANTS-APPELLANTS,

ET AL., DEFENDANTS.

(APPEAL NO. 1.)



Defendants Meta Platforms, Inc., formerly known as Facebook, Inc., Alphabet Inc., Google, LLC, YouTube, LLC, and Reddit Inc. (defendants), having applied for leave to file an oversized reply brief (see 22 NYCRR 1250.9 [h]), on the appeal taken herein from an order of the Supreme Court, Erie County, entered March 18, 2024,

Now, upon reading and filing the application,

It is hereby ORDERED that the application is granted and defendants have leave to file and serve a reply brief in the form attached to the application on or before March 12, 2025.

Entered: March 11, 2025

Ann Dillon Flynn

Clerk of the Court