Petition of the day
By Kate Howard
on Oct 14, 2016
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.
Posted in Cases in the Pipeline
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/