Judge Dismisses Marketing Company's Suit Against Facebook Over Advertising Clicks

Mealey's (August 31, 2020, 2:14 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge in California on Aug. 28 granted Facebook Inc.'s motion to dismiss an advertising company's putative class action alleging that the "world's largest social media services company" violated California's unfair competition law (UCL) by making numerous false or misleading statements about advertising on its social media platform, finding that the plaintiff failed to assert facts establishing that it has statutory standing to sue under the UCL (dotStrategy Co. v. Facebook Inc., No. 20-00170, N.D. Calif., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 156903)....