Snap Inc. has lost its lawsuit challenging Utah’s use of its consumer-protection statutes to regulate the social-media platform’s interactions with minors.
The US District Court for the District of Utah should abstain from involvement in the matter because of the possibility of undue interference with Utah’s state-court enforcement lawsuit against Snapchat’s corporate parent, Judge Jill N. Parrish said Tuesday.
Parrish declined to exercise jurisdiction over Snap’s suit and granted the state’s motion to dismiss it.
Looming over the litigation was Utah’s 2024 Minor Protection in Social Media Act, which imposed age-verification requirements on social-media platforms. US District Judge Robert J. ...