Welcome to Law.com Class Actions: Critical Mass, a weekly briefing for class action and mass tort attorneys.

This week: Lawyers sparred in court about whether lawsuits against defunct cryptocurrency exchange FTX’s banks, venture capitalists, accountants and celebrity endorsers should be consolidated into multidistrict litigation. A federal judge scheduled dismissal arguments in the social media addiction lawsuits after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Communications Decency Act’s protections for tech companies this month.