Oct. 22, 2014
Websites and the duty to warn
Courts may be narrowing the protections that the Communications Decency Act provides websites.
In Doe v. Internet Brands Inc., 2014 DJDAR 12887 (Sept. 17, 2014), the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that a rape victim could bring a "failure to warn" tort claim against the website where perpetrators found her name. Section 230(c)(1) of the Communications Decency Act (CDA), which generally protects websites from liability for material posted by someone else, was no bar.
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