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State AGs Fight Your Kid's Facebook Addiction

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Forty-one states and the District of Columbia sued Meta over features they say harm children.

1. Law360's Pro Say focuses this week on Meta's Facebook and Instagram child-safety lawsuits, the LSAT logic-games change, a Google jury verdict, and Ted Nugent in the Fourth Circuit. 2. Amber McKinney hosts with Alex Lawson and Haley Knoth, and Rachel Scharf is mentioned for covering the Sam Bankman-Fried trial because she reported on whether he would testify. 3. The episode is built to move from major litigation news to a law-school-admissions policy change, then to an unusual employment verdict, then to an offbeat appellate-argument moment. 4. Amber says 41 U.S. states and the District of Columbia sued Meta on Tuesday over allegedly addictive features in Facebook, Instagram, and other products. 5. The flagship complaint is described as a 33-state case filed in California federal court, alongside a Florida federal complaint and separate claims from the District of Columbia and seven other states. 6. The core allegations target algorithms, compulsive-use recommendations, alerts that drive users back to the platform, and visual filter tools said to contribute to body dysmorphia. 7. The hosts note that the state attorneys general spent nearly two years investigating Meta and other social-media companies before filing suit. 8. The discussion also covers prior class actions, multidistrict litigation in California, and stalled congressional efforts to create clearer rules for children on social media. 9. Amber says California and Arkansas have recently strengthened child-safety laws, but judges have temporarily blocked those laws on First Amendment grounds. 10. Meta's response, as described on the show, included parental tracking tools, break reminders for teens, and stronger privacy settings before the states sued anyway. 11. The LSAT segment begins with Haley saying the Law School Admission Council is dropping analytical reasoning, known as logic games, after a 2019 settlement with blind prospective law students. 12. Haley explains that the plaintiffs said test materials and prep materials pushed diagramming strategies that sighted test takers could use more easily than blind test takers. 13. The show states that the council will replace logic games with a second logical reasoning section, a format that previously existed before being removed in 2020 for the move online. 14. Amber and Haley note the long delay between the 2019 settlement and the 2021 implementation, which the council attributed to field testing and alternative-question experiments. 15. The hosts discuss data showing a median LSAT score of 151 with the original format and a median score of 151 when the analytical-reasoning section is excluded. 16. Haley says the change still leaves the LSAT hard, and Amber jokes about teaching Kaplan LSAT classes and mourning a skill set she no longer uses. 17. The Google segment centers on Ulku Roh, a technology director on Google Cloud's financial-services team, who testified that she was hired at a lower pay level than male colleagues. 18. The hosts describe Google's defense that Roh brought regulatory experience from JPMorgan Chase but lacked engineering background compared with colleagues from Spotify, General Electric, and Intel. 19. The tone shifts between legal reporting, personal reactions to standardized testing, and an amused close reading of courtroom and appellate-argument moments. 20. Listeners who follow state AG litigation, legal education policy, and workplace discrimination will get the most from it, while listeners who want one focused case should skip the mixed-news format.

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A clear legal-news episode that makes an LSAT change easy to grasp.

Law360's Pro Se turns a technical LSAT change into a clear, approachable discussion without losing the legal substance. The hosts explain why the logic-games section is being retired, trace the change back to a 2019 settlement, and outline how field testing pushed the exam…

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