Legal Opinion
Force v. Facebook, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided July 31, 2019No. 18-397; August Term, 2018PublishedCited by 93 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Droney, Circuit Judge:
The principal question presented in this appeal is whether 47 U.S.C. § 230 (c)(1), a provision enacted by the Communications Decency Act of 1996, shields Defendant-Appellee Facebook, Inc., from civil liability as to Plaintiffs-Appellants' federal anti-terrorism claims. Plaintiffs include the U.S. citizen victims, and relatives and representatives of the estates of those victims, of certain terrorist attacks committed by Hamas in Israel. They contend that Facebook unlawfully provided Hamas, a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization, with a communications platform…
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