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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-949 | John Doe, et al. v. X Corp., fka Twitter, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2026-02-10 | Pending | child-pornography civil-immunity good-samaritan internet-platform section-230 sex-trafficking | Whether Section 230's Good Samaritan immunity applies to the knowing possession and distribution of child pornography and knowingly benefiting from a … | |
| 25A631 | John Doe, et al. v. Twitter, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-01 | Application | child-pornography civil-liability content-moderation internet-platform section-230 sex-trafficking | Whether Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act provides immunity to internet platforms for knowingly possessing child pornography and benefitin… | |
| 25A285 | Jaime Rogozinski v. Reddit, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-09-11 | Presumed Complete | online-community platform-liability right-of-publicity section-230 trademark-ownership user-agreement | Whether a platform moderator can claim trademark ownership of an online community's name when the platform itself created and hosted the underlying fo… | |
| 25-286 | Six4Three, LLC v. Facebook, Inc., et al. | California | 2025-09-11 | Denied | Response Waived | communications-decency-act developer-apis liability-immunity online-platform product-design section-230 | Whether Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act immunizes an online platform for its own conduct, speech, and product design choices? |
| 24-1299 | Planet Green Cartridges, Inc., a California Corporation v. Amazon.com, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-06-24 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-liability communications-decency-act internet-platforms product-misrepresentation section-230 third-party-content | Does Section 230 confer immunity on internet platforms when they knowingly permit, facilitate, and profit from third-party promotion and sale of misre… |
| 24-1202 | John Doe v. Grindr Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-05-23 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | algorithmic-recommendation communications-decency-act minor-protection platform-liability product-design section-230 | Whether Section 230(c)(1) of the Communications Decency Act immunizes apps from liability for defective product design and insufficient warnings when … |
| 24-1133 | M. P., By and Through Her Parent, Natural Guardian, and Next Friend, Jennifer Pin v. Meta Platforms Inc., fka Facebook, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-05-02 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | algorithmic-bias common-law-tort content-recommendation racial-violence section-230 social-media-liability | Do M.P.'s state common law tort claims adequately plead conduct by Facebook in recommending content and groups to Dylann Roof that fall outside of Sec… |
| 24-1116 | Jason Fyk v. Facebook, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-04-28 | Denied | Amici (3)Response Waived | communications-decency-act first-party-conduct immunity interactive-computer-service pleading-stage section-230 | Whether §230(c)(1) confers immunity from suit at the pleading stage and protects affirmative first-party conduct by interactive computer service provi… |
| 24-7025 | James Todino v. X Corp., fka Twitter, Inc., et al. | Massachusetts | 2025-04-17 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | criminal-harm due-process internet-immunity platform-liability section-230 user-generated-content | Whether Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act provides continued immunity to internet platforms that knowingly host user generated content inv… |
| 24-864 | Estate of Carson Bride, By and Through His Appointed Administrator Kristin Bride, et al. v. Yolo Technologies, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-02-12 | Denied | Response Waived | anonymous-communication communications-decency-act content-moderation online-messaging products-liability section-230 | Whether Section 230(c)(1) of the Communications Decency Act immunizes an online anonymous messaging app from products liability claims where the app a… |
| 24-6388 | Taiming Zhang v. X Corp., fka Twitter, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-01-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 9th-circuit internet-immunity judicial-interpretation platform-liability section-230 user-content | Whether the Supreme Court will correct the 9th Circuit's misinterpretation of 47 U.S. Code § 230 immunity and its potential impact on internet platfor… |
| 24A681 | TikTok, Inc., et al. v. Tawainna Anderson, Individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of N. A., a Deceased Minor | Third Circuit | 2025-01-13 | Presumed Complete | algorithm-liability content-moderation first-amendment internet-platform section-230 third-party-speech | Whether Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act immunizes online platforms from state-law claims based on algorithmic content curation and recom… | |
| 24-6036 | Antonio Medina v. Microsoft Corporation, et al. | California | 2024-11-26 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split court-sealed-documents first-amendment immunity publication-rights section-230 | Whether the Supreme Court should resolve the circuit split regarding immunity under Section 230 of Title 47 of the United States Code and First Amendm… |
| 24A500 | Estate of Carson Bride, By and Through His Appointed Administrator Kristin Bride, et al. v. Yolo Technologies, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-11-20 | Presumed Complete | class-action internet-platform negligence section-230 technology-liability user-harm | Whether a technology platform can be held liable for alleged harm caused by its user interactions under Section 230 immunity provisions | |
| 24-5787 | Taiming Zhang v. X Corp., fka Twitter, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-10-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment immunity-doctrine section-230 | Whether the Supreme Court will review the 9th Circuit's interpretation of 47 U.S. Code § 230 and its potential constitutional implications |
| 24-5699 | Susan Lloyd v. Facebook, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alter-ego data-privacy negligence public-accommodation section-230 website-accessibility | Whether websites constitute places of public accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act and whether social media platforms can be held li… |
| 23-961 | John Doe, Through Next Friend Jane Roe v. Snap, Inc., dba Snapchat, L.L.C., dba Snap, L.L.C. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-05 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) | civil-rights content-provider due-process free-speech internet-service-provider negligence negligent-design section-230 sexual-assault sexual-predator tortious-misconduct | Does 47 U.S.C. Section 230 immunize internet service providers from any suit based on their own tortious misconduct simply because third-party content… |
| 23-647 | Adrienne Sepaniak King v. Meta Platforms, Inc., fka Facebook, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-15 | Denied | Relisted (2) | 47-usc-230 civil-procedure content-moderation contract contract-law first-amendment free-speech immunity internet-immunity judicial-interpretation section-230 standing | Should this Court adopt the opinion of Justice Thomas in Malwarebytes v. Enigma Software Group USA, LLC, reverse the Barnes v. Yahoo!, Inc. decision, … |
| 22-753 | Jason Fyk v. Facebook, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-02-10 | Denied | communications-decency-act content-moderation due-process free-speech good-samaritan immunity interactive-computer-service-provider internet-service-provider section-230 | Proper scope of immunity under Section 230(c) of the Communications Decency Act | |
| 22-6274 | John C. Killingbeck v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-12-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights content-provider criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process free-speech habeas-corpus internet-immunity internet-service-provider-liability section-230 standing | Whether the government and courts have acted within their constitutional authority in prosecuting and denying relief to an individual convicted of dow… |
| 22-375 | Word of God Fellowship, Inc., dba Daystar Television Network v. Vimeo, Inc., et al. | New York | 2022-10-21 | Denied | civil-rights content-moderation contract-preemption first-amendment free-speech internet-immunity public-discourse section-230 viewpoint-discrimination | Does Section 230 immunity extend to the removal of viewpoint-based speech on matters of public concern when the content of the speech is neither facia… | |
| 21-1333 | Reynaldo Gonzalez, et al. v. Google LLC | Ninth Circuit | 2022-04-06 | Judgment Issued | Amici (79) | civil-rights communications-decency-act editorial-functions immunity information-content-provider interactive-computer-service section-230 targeted-recommendations | Does section 230(c)(1) immunize interactive computer services when they make targeted recommendations of information provided by another information c… |
| 21-1142 | James Domen, et al. v. Vimeo, Inc. | Second Circuit | 2022-02-16 | Denied | Response Waived | amendment-opportunity bad-faith civil-rights communications-decency-act discrimination discrimination-claims interactive-computer-service preemption section-230 | Does Section 230(c)(1) preempt discrimination claims against an interactive computer service? |
| 21-6916 | Joachim Martillo v. Twitter, Inc., et al. | First Circuit | 2022-01-20 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights common-carriage constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law due-process free-speech internet-law public-accommodation section-230 | Correct interpretation of 47 U.S. Code § 230 |
| 21-459 | Jane Doe v. Facebook, Inc. | Texas | 2021-09-27 | Denied | Amici (3)Relisted (6) | communications-decency-act immunity internet-platform-immunity legal-liability platform-misconduct publisher-liability section-230 sex-trafficking third-party-content | Does Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act provide immunity from suit to internet platforms in any case arising from the publication of third-… |
| 21-419 | Bob Lewis v. Google LLC, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-09-17 | Denied | Response Waived | 47-usc-230 censorship civil-liability constitutionally-protected-speech first-amendment free-speech hate-speech packingham-v-north-carolina section-230 social-media | Does this Court's holding in Packingham v. North Carolina override 47 U.S.C. § 230's civil liability indemnification for censorship of constitutionall… |
| 20-5849 | Uzoma Igbonwa v. Facebook, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-10-01 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process facebook free-speech immunity-provision ninth-circuit section-230 terms-of-service | Whether Facebook was should be protected by the immunity provision of Section 230 of the Communication and Decency Act when they clearly violated its … |
| 19-1284 | Malwarebytes, Inc. v. Enigma Software Group USA, LLC | Ninth Circuit | 2020-05-13 | Denied | Amici (4)Relisted (2) | anticompetitive-animus antitrust blocking civil-liability civil-rights communications-decency-act computer-service-providers filtering free-speech immunity section-230 | Whether federal courts can derive an implied exception to Section 230(c)(2)(B) immunity for blocking or filtering decisions when they are alleged to b… |
| 19-859 | Stuart Force, et al. v. Facebook, Inc. | Second Circuit | 2020-01-09 | Denied | communications-decency-act content-provider editorial-function editorial-functions immunity interactive-computer-service legal-interpretation online-platforms publisher publisher-immunity section-230 | Whether Section 230(c)(1) of the Communications Decency Act provides broad immunity to online platforms or is limited to traditional editorial functio… | |
| 19-849 | Kristanalea Dyroff, Individually and on Behalf of the Estate of Wesley Greer v. Ultimate Software Group, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-06 | Denied | civil-rights communications-decency-act content-moderation editorial-function editorial-functions free-speech immunity information-provider internet-immunity publisher publisher-liability section-230 | Does Section 230(c)(1) provide broad immunity or limit the definition of a publisher? | |
| 19-5720 | Melinda Scott v. Joshua Moon, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-08-27 | Denied | IFP | 47-usc-230 civil-liability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process immunity internet-law invasion-of-privacy legal-standing privacy section-230 standing tort-liability | Has Plaintiff Scott stated sufficient facts to support an Invasion of Privacy claim against Defendants Moon and Zaiger? |
| 19-192 | Matthew Herrick v. Grindr LLC, et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-08-14 | Denied | Response Waived | affirmative-defense communications-decency-act failure-to-warn fraud interactive-computer-services motion-to-dismiss negligence non-publication-torts product-liability publication-torts section-230 | Does the Communications Decency Act § 230(c)(1) prevent well pleaded causes of action for non-publication torts? |
| 19-153 | Yasmeen Daniel, Individually and as Special Administrator of the Estate of Zina Daniel Haughton v. Armslist, LLC, et al. | Wisconsin | 2019-08-01 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 47-usc-230 circuit-split civil-liability communications-decency-act internet-regulation section-230 state-civil-liability third-party-content tort-liability website-liability website-owners | Does the Communications Decency Act, 47 U.S.C. §230's prohibition on treating providers of interactive computer services as publishers or speakers of … |
| 18-1090 | Mary Kay Beckman v. Match.com, LLC | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-21 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-court-interpretation circuit-court-split civil-liability communications-decency-act immunity internet-immunity negligence publisher-liability section-230 third-party-content tort tort-liability website-immunity | Petitioner seeks review of whether Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act immunizes website operators from liability for their own negligent or… |
| 18-506 | Dawn L. Hassell, et al. v. Yelp, Inc. | California | 2018-10-18 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | communications-decency-act injunction interactive-computer-services non-party non-party-liability section-230 tortious-content unprotected-content unprotected-speech | Whether Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act bars plaintiffs from obtaining an injunction enforcing a valid final judgment against a non-part… |