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The United States Supreme Court is the highest court of the United States and is charged with interpreting federal law, including the United States Constitution. The Court's docket is largely discretionary with only a limited number of cases granted review each term.  The Court is comprised of one chief justice and eight associate justices, who are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate to hold lifetime positions. less -
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The State AG Report – 4.25.2024

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Here are curated AG and federal regulatory news stories highlighting key areas in which state and federal regulators’ decisions are having an impact across the US: •Republican and Democratic AGs Square Up for Emissions...more

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Bipartisan AGs Argue Section 230 Immunity for Online Platforms is Untenable “Engine of Human Misery”

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A coalition of 20 Republican and three Democratic AGs submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in the case Doe v. Snap, Inc., No. 23-961, urging the Court to grant petitioner’s writ of certiorari and reverse the...more

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The Supreme Court Declines Another Opportunity to Consider Section 230

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​​​​​​​Just twelve days after Supreme Court of the United States issued a per curiam decision in Gonzalez v. Google LLC, in which the Court declined to address the application of §230 of the Communications Decency Act, 47...more

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U.S. Supreme Court’s Take on Section 230: What it Means for Online Platforms – and What’s Next

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The U.S. Supreme Court decided two cases recently that left untouched Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which provides online platforms immunity from claims based on content that their users create and share on...more

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Supreme Court Rules for Twitter and Declines to Address Section 230 in Much-Anticipated ISIS Case

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On May 18, 2023, in Twitter, Inc. v. Taamneh et al., the United States Supreme Court ruled against an Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (“ISIS”) attack victim’s family who sought to hold Twitter, and other social media...more

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Client Alert: A No-Decision Decision: The Supreme Court Dodges Section 230

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On May 18, the Supreme Court issued a much-anticipated decision in Gonzalez v. Google LLC, the first case in which the Supreme Court has considered the contours of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, 47 U.S.C. §...more

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On Section 230, SCOTUS Says It Best When It Says Nothing At All

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In the space of a three-page per curiam opinion, Gonzalez v. Google went from blockbuster to nothingburger. The first (and, therefore, the biggest) Section 230 case to be considered on the merits by the U.S. Supreme Court,...more

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Supreme Court Maintains Internet Safe Harbor Provisions … for Now

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With little comment and reportage, the U. S. Supreme Court decided on May 18 that the “safe harbor” granted to the operators of online platforms precluded claims that an algorithmic process that allowed terrorist recruiting...more

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U.S. Supreme Court Narrows Scope of Liability Under Anti-Terrorism Act

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The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously decided Twitter v. Taamneh, clarifying the meaning of key provisions in the Anti-Terrorism Act ("ATA") and the pleading standard for aiding-and-abetting claims under that law....more

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Social Links: Section 230 Under Scrutiny (Again) From Lawmakers

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Section 23o, the “26 words that changed the Internet,” is once again under scrutiny from lawmakers. At the federal level, Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Judiciary panel’s subcommittee on privacy, technology, and...more

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Time to Reboot the Internet? The Supreme Court Hears Challenges to Big Tech Platforms

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While some people thrive in the land of TikTok dances, others struggle to limit their thoughts to 140 characters leading Twitter to increase their character limit to 280 in 2017. In fact, as of February 2019 Internet users...more

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For the First Time, Supreme Court Considers Section 230 Immunity for Third-Party Content on Internet Platforms Such as Google and...

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In what could be a seminal case of the Internet age, the U.S. Supreme Court this week heard arguments in Gonzalez v. Google, its first case concerning the hotly debated Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act....more

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Section 230 Narrowing in the Future?

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This past week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Gonzalez v. Google. The petitioners are a family that unsuccessfully sued Google for aiding and abetting terrorism when their 23-year old daughter was tragically...more

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Supreme Court to Address Section 230 for First Time

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On October 3, 2022, the United States Supreme Court granted certiorari in Gonzalez v. Google LLC, No. 21-1333, to address the scope of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act....more

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How the Supreme Court’s OT 2022 Term (So Far) Might Affect Tech

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The Supreme Court’s OT 2022 docket is shaping up to be another significant term. Although the Court will continue to take up more petitions in the coming months, its current docket is already poised to have significant...more

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Issues on the Horizon at the US Supreme Court: 2022 and Beyond

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Takeaways - Litigants will ask the Court to rule on an array of matters growing out of the COVID-19 pandemic, beyond challenges to Biden administration’s vaccine policies. The preemption of state employment laws by...more

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Intellectual Property Bulletin - Spring 2021

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In This Issue - Section 230 and the Future of Content Moderation - We analyze Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act—the 1996 law that provides a legal shield for internet providers from content created by their...more

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US Supreme Court Grabs Attention of Tech Giants as Past Immunity Granted by Section 230 Is Called Into Question

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While this was a big week for the United States Supreme Court with the confirmation of Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Justice Clarence Thomas’ written statement following the Court’s October 12, 2020, decision in...more

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Justice Thomas Lays Blueprint for Supreme Court to Limit Section 230 In a Future Case

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In the Supreme Court’s October 13 Order List, Justice Thomas issued a statement regarding the denial of certiorari in a case out of the Ninth Circuit—Malwarebytes Inc. v. Enigma Software Group USA, LLC—that we have previously...more

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For the Time Being, Tech Companies Remain Shielded from Liability for Users’ Uploaded Content

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Thanks to recent decisions by the First and Second Circuit Courts of Appeals, tech companies will remain protected from liability for some of their users’ uploaded content under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and...more

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