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Petition of the day

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Thepetition of the day is:

16-276

Issue:Whether Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which provides that no internet service provider shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of internet content that was provided by another, precludes a civil lawsuit against a website owner and operator based on its own criminal conduct any time online content created by a third party was part of the chain of causation leading to the plaintiff’s injuries.

Cases: Doe v. Backpage.com LLC

Recommended Citation: Kate Howard, Petition of the day, SCOTUSblog (Oct. 14, 2016, 12:00 AM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2016/10/petition-of-the-day-1011/