Legal Opinion
ANDERSON v. TIKTOK, INC.
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided October 25, 2022No. 2:22-cv-01849Unknown
1Opinion
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA TAWAINNA ANDERSON, : Plaintiff, : : v. : Civ. No. 22-1849 : TIKTOK, INC., et al., : Defendants. : Diamond, J. October 25, 2022 MEMORANDUM Plaintiff Tawainna Anderson accuses Defendants TikTok, Inc. and ByteDance, Inc. (operators of the social media application “TikTok”) of causing the death of her daughter. (Compl. (Doc. No. 1).) Although the circumstances here are tragic, I am compelled to rule that because Plaintiff seeks to hold Defendants liable as “publishers” of third-party content, they are immune under the…
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