Lawyers for Facebook parent company Meta are seeking to minimize the role of state attorneys general in enforcing federal antitrust laws as part of a dispute before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

In a brief filed late Monday, the company’s lawyers at Kellogg Hansen Todd Figel & Frederick argued that state attorneys general are not “sovereign enforcers of federal antitrust law” and, unlike the federal government, have a limited window to bring claims alleging harm to competition.