By Jenna Greene

August 18 (Reuters) -Mark Zuckerberg has better things to do than sit for a deposition.

Or so lawyers for Meta Platforms suggest in a pending petition to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, objecting to the billionaire CEO being forced to give testimony in a proposed privacy class action.

The company invokes a controversial principle known as the apex doctrine to claim Zuckerberg should be spared the hot seat, arguing that he has no “unique” knowledge of the case, and plaintiffs’ lawyers could get the same information from lower-level Meta employees.

Plaintiffs want to question the CEO about allegations that Meta obtained private health information from millions of Facebook users without their knowledge or consent via its Pixel tracking tool. The claims echo those in

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