( July 9, 2025, 8:17 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Granting a motion to stay by Meta Platforms Inc., a District of Columbia federal judge issued a minute order putting the brakes on a suit in which the social media company accuses the Federal Trade Commission of exceeding its constitutional authority related to a consent order over Meta’s purported privacy violations, finding that a decision in a parallel suit in the same district between the same parties will likely be dispositive on the present suit....