Diana Uhimov, April 20, 2015. After an initial denial, a New York federal judge for the Southern District of New York granted permission last week to a group of former Gawker Media LLC interns’ to notify potential class members of a proposed action through social media, namely Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.  The judge limited the approval by finding that “friending” class members on Facebook is too extreme.  The interns brought the proposed collective action, Mark et al. v. Gawker Media LLC et al., in 2013 under the Fair…

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