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Internet reviews and the Communications Decency Act of 1996

By Caleb Segrest (US) on August 21, 2018 Posted in Defamation

We have previously written about the U.S. legal landscape regarding consumers’ rights to post negative reviews of products or services on the internet, including some of the implications of the Consumer Review Fairness Act on these rights. The Consumer Review Fairness Act was passed in December of 2016 in response to some businesses’ efforts to … Continue reading

Did Twitter violate Anti-Terrorism Act by providing ISIS accounts?

By Caleb Segrest (US) on August 23, 2016 Posted in General, Litigation

On August 10, 2016, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, in Fields v. Twitter, Inc., dismissed the plaintiffs’ complaint against Twitter with leave to amend. The plaintiffs’ complaint arose out of the deaths of Lloyd Fields, Jr. and James Damon Creach, two United States government contractors who were working at … Continue reading