Legal Opinion
Jane Doe No. 1 v. Backpage.Com, LLC
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 14, 2016No. 15-1724PPublishedCited by 112 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
This is a hard case- — hard not in the sense that the legal issues defy resolution, but hard in the sense that the law requires that we, like the court below, deny relief to plaintiffs whose circumstances evoke outrage. The result we must reach is rooted in positive law. Congress addressed the right to publish the speech of others in the Information Age when it enacted the Communications Decency Act of 1996 (CDA). See 47 U.S.C. § 230. Congress later addressed the need to guard against the evils of sex trafficking when it enacted the Trafficking Victims Protection…
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