Bride

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 KRISTIN BRIDE, et al., Case No. 21-cv-03473-JD

Plaintiffs,

ORDER RE MOTION TO TRANSFER

v. 9 Re: Dkt. No. 31 SNAP INC., et al., Defendants.

12 In this consumer class action, the Estate of Carson Bride, his mother Kristin Bride, and the Tyler Clementi Foundation have sued three technology companies, Snap, Inc. (which owns the Snapchat app), YOLO Technologies, Inc. (which owns YOLO, an in-app extension for Snapchat), and LightSpace, Inc. (which owns LMK, another Snapchat extension), for claims under Oregon, New York, and California state law. See Dkt. No. 1. The claims arise out of the tragic suicides of Carson Bride and Tyler Clementi, teenage boys who are alleged to have suffered harassment and cyberbullying on Snapchat and the YOLO and LMK extensions. Id. ¶¶ 29, 65-67. Plaintiffs contend that Snap, YOLO, and LightSpace failed to implement their anti-bullying and harassment policies, and to safeguard teens from cyberbullying despite promising to do so. Id. ¶ 22. …