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Orin Snyder, with Gibson Dunn & Crutcher. October 18, 2019.

Facebook Law Firm Gibson Dunn Denies 'Stonewalling' Discovery

Lawyers at Gibson Dunn said they were "mortified" that U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria was considering terminating sanctions for "dilatory discovery conduct" in privacy lawsuits against Facebook.

That's according to Monday's response from the law firm to a sanctions motion filed, with Chhabria's urging, by plaintiffs' attorneys in the multidistrict litigation over the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Gibson Dunn denied that its lawyers, who include the firm's chief operating officer, Josh Lipshutz, were "foot -dragging" and "stonewalling" discovery, insisting that Chhabria's version of events relied on a "false and misleading account" by the plaintiffs' attorneys.