No. 24-864

Estate of Carson Bride, By and Through His Appointed Administrator Kristin Bride, et al. v. Yolo Technologies, Inc.

Lower Court: Ninth Circuit
Docketed: 2025-02-12
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived Experienced Counsel
Tags: anonymous-communication communications-decency-act content-moderation online-messaging products-liability section-230
Key Terms:
Privacy
Latest Conference: 2025-03-21
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether Section 230(c)(1) of the Communications Decency Act immunizes an online anonymous messaging app from products liability claims where the app allegedly facilitated one-sided anonymous messaging with ineffective safety features

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act states that no service provider “shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information cont ent provider,” or, more colloquially, by a third -party user of the service. Id. §230(c)(1). The second part protects actions taken by a service provider to moderate and restrict material it “considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objection able.” Id. §230(c)(2). Section 230 expressly pree mpts any state laws with which it may conflict. Id. §230(e)(3). The Question Presented Is : Whether Section 230(c)(1 ) of the CDA immunizes an online anonymous messaging app from products liability claims, where th e app was alleged to be dangerously designed because it facilitated one -sided anonymous messaging and its stated safety feature of revealing and banning harassers did not work?

Docket Entries

2025-03-24
Petition DENIED.
2025-02-26
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 3/21/2025.
2025-02-19
Waiver of Yolo Technologies, Inc. of right to respond submitted.
2025-02-19
Waiver of right of respondent Yolo Technologies, Inc. to respond filed.
2025-02-03
2024-11-21
Application (24A500) granted by Justice Kagan extending the time to file until February 3, 2025.
2024-11-18
Application (24A500) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from December 5, 2024 to February 3, 2025, submitted to Justice Kagan.

Attorneys

The Estate of Carson Bride, By and Through His Appointed Administrator Kristin Bride, et al.
Andrew RozynskiEisenberg & Baum, LLP, Petitioner
Andrew RozynskiEisenberg & Baum, LLP, Petitioner
Yolo Technologies, Inc.
Stephen Robert McAllisterDentons US LLP, Respondent
Stephen Robert McAllisterDentons US LLP, Respondent