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Spring ISD board unanimously approves joining multi-district social media litigation and contingent-fee counsel
Summary
Trustees voted unanimously May 8 to authorize participation in pending federal multi-district litigation over social media's harms to children and to sign contingent-fee agreements with outside counsel pending Texas Attorney General approval.
The Spring Independent School District board unanimously voted Thursday to join a multi-district lawsuit arguing that major social-media companies have designed addictive algorithms that harm children and to approve contingent-fee legal agreements with outside firms to pursue the matter.
Outside counsel David Thompson of Thompson & Horton told trustees the harm to children and school operations is widespread and that hundreds of districts nationwide have already joined litigation in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.…
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