Well over one hundred federal claims against Roblox are centralized in MDL No. 3166. The age-determination mechanism the claims depend on was not the same throughout the conduct period. Discovery can compel records — it cannot retroactively convert them into the independent, contemporaneous fixation they were never built to contain.

The federal trial pitting 29 states against Meta, opened August 18, 2026, surfaces a structural evidentiary gap: whether an independently fixed determination record from an internal detection system exists at all. A doctrinal analysis, taking no position on the trial's outcome.