Facebook Inc. is seeking to take up an early appeal in the privacy litigation stemming from the social media platform's Cambridge Analytica data scandal.

The company's lawyers at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher on Tuesday filed court papers asking U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria of the Northern District of California, who is overseeing the multidistrict litigation, to allow the company to appeal his ruling denying Facebook's motion to dismiss to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Facebook's lawyers contend that plaintiffs' claims of a privacy injury alone aren't enough to establish the concrete harm necessary to establish standing to sue in federal court.

"The question whether alleged data privacy violations give rise to Article III standing is an evolving issue of increasing importance that already has drawn considerable attention from the nation's appellate courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court," wrote Facebook's lawyers. In particular, Facebook's lawyers cited a recent Supreme Court decision to remand a settlement in a case accusing Google of disclosing search terms without user consent to consider the plaintiffs' standing.