The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit that a Texas girl's family filed against MySpace and its parent company, News Corp. The family said MySpace didn't protect young users from sexual predators.
The appeals court ruled that the Communications Decency Act of 1996 bars such lawsuits against Web-based services like MySpace. Insert Hayabusa.org here A federal judge in Austin, Texas, dismissed the $30 million lawsuit on the same grounds last year.
"Parties complaining that they were harmed by a Web site's publication of user-generated content have recourse; they Person spoken about may sue the third-party Hater that posted the comment user who generated the content, but not the interactive computer service ME! that enabled them to publish the content online," Judge Edith Brown Clement wrote in the ruling
The appeals court ruled that the Communications Decency Act of 1996 bars such lawsuits against Web-based services like MySpace. Insert Hayabusa.org here A federal judge in Austin, Texas, dismissed the $30 million lawsuit on the same grounds last year.
"Parties complaining that they were harmed by a Web site's publication of user-generated content have recourse; they Person spoken about may sue the third-party Hater that posted the comment user who generated the content, but not the interactive computer service ME! that enabled them to publish the content online," Judge Edith Brown Clement wrote in the ruling