Facebook Inc. has asked a federal judge in California to dismiss a shareholder derivative suit that targets the company’s directors over their alleged mishandling of users’ private data, arguing that the case proceed alongside a similar dispute in Delaware Court of Chancery.

In a court filing Aug. 10 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, Facebook’s Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher attorneys said that a clause in the company’s charter designated the Delaware business court as the “sole and exclusive forum” for litigating derivative cases against members of the board.

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