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A Dirty Job: TheDirty.com Cases Show the Limits of CDA Section 230

By Cecilia Ziniti on Posted in Ethics, Litigation, Privacy

We’ve reported before on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA), the 1996 statute that states, “[n]o provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.”  Courts have interpreted Section 230 to immunize social media and other websites… Continue Reading

You’re Out of Order: Jurors, Social Media and Legal Ethics

By Daniel P. Westman and Jeremy Ben Merkelson on Posted in Ethics

The Internet and, in particular, social media have changed the landscape of federal and state jury instructions, which now prohibit jurors from conducting independent research on the Internet, from sending emails, texts, Facebook postings, tweets or other electronic communications conveying developments in a trial or in deliberations, and from using mobile cameras to record courtroom… Continue Reading