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Doe v. Grindr

May 20, 2024

Whether Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act prohibits a lawsuit against a dating app alleging that the app was designed in a dangerous way because it repeatedly matched a high schooler with adults who sexually abused him.
- Consumer Privacy
- Platform Accountability & Governance
- Section 230
- Social Media Privacy
- Amicus Briefs
X v. Bonta

March 28, 2024

In a First Amendment challenge to a law that requires social media platforms to disclose information about their existing content moderation practices, what level of scrutiny applies? And can the law be struck down in its entirety based on a tenuous and hypothetical assertion that public or government pressure will lead to companies changing their content moderation practices?
- Platform Accountability & Governance
- Platform Governance Laws & Regulations
- The First Amendment
- Amicus Briefs
McCarthy v. Amazon

December 12, 2023

Whether Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, can be sued under product liability for selling sodium nitrite to minors who used the compound to commit suicide.
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
- Big Data
- Commercial AI Use
- Consumer Privacy
- Platform Accountability & Governance
- Section 230
- Amicus Briefs
NetChoice v. Paxton / Moody v. NetChoice

December 8, 2023

(1) Whether the First Amendment protects every choice a social media company makes as to what user-generated content it hosts and how it arranges that content.
- Consumer Privacy
- Platform Accountability & Governance
- Platform Governance Laws & Regulations
- Social Media Privacy
- The First Amendment
- Amicus Briefs
In re: Casino-Style Games Litigation

November 3, 2023

Whether Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which prohibits treating internet companies as the speakers of third-party information, prevents lawsuits against internet companies who sell illegal products provided by third parties on their online marketplaces.
- Consumer Privacy
- Platform Accountability & Governance
- Section 230
- Amicus Briefs
Bride et al. v. Yolo Technologies, Inc.

August 21, 2023

Whether Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act prohibits (1) misrepresentation claims against internet companies who, after claiming in their terms of service that they would ban and reveal the identities of users who cyberbullied others, then refused to do so, and (2) products liability claims against the same defendants for designing an allegedly unsafe messaging product that allowed users to send anonymous, abusive messages to teens.
- Platform Accountability & Governance
- Section 230
- Amicus Briefs
NetChoice v. Bonta

May 22, 2023

Whether the First Amendment prohibits a law that requires businesses to offer privacy protections to children.
- Children's Privacy
- Consumer Privacy
- Data Protection
- Platform Accountability & Governance
- Platform Governance Laws & Regulations
- Privacy Laws
- The First Amendment
- U.S. State Privacy Laws
- Amicus Briefs
Gonzalez v. Google

December 8, 2022
- Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights
- Platform Accountability & Governance
- Section 230
- Amicus Briefs
Herrick v. Grindr, LLC

May 30, 2018

Whether Sec. 230 of the Communications Decency Act shields Grindr, a dating app, from liability for failing to remove fake profiles that used the Plaintiff's name and likeness and posed a danger to his personal safety
- Consumer Privacy
- Democracy & Free Speech
- Online Harassment
- Platform Accountability & Governance
- Section 230
- Amicus Briefs

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