Facebook antitrust cases assigned to US judges named by Obama

WASHINGTON, Dec 11 (Reuters) – Lawsuits filed on Wednesday against Facebook Inc by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and nearly every U.S. state have been sent to two Washington judges appointed by former President Barack Obama, federal court documents showed on Friday.

The antitrust complaint filed by 46 agencies states that the District of Columbia and Guam have been assigned to Judge James E. Boasberg, who has served on the court since 2011, while the FTC complaint has been assigned to Judge Christopher Cooper, who has served on the court since 2014.

(Reporting by David Shepardson, editing by Franklin Paul)