Legal Opinion
Tamara Fields v. Twitter, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided January 31, 2018No. 16-17165PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
M. SMITH, Circuit Judge:
After Lloyd “Carl” Fields, Jr., and James Damon Creach were killed while working as government contractors in Jordan in an attack for which ISIS claimed credit, Plaintiffs-Appellants sued Defendant-Appellee Twitter, Inc. (Twitter) pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 2383(a), the civil remedies provision of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA), alleging that they were injured “by reason of’ Twitter’s knowing provision of material support to ISIS. Twitter moved to dismiss the case, and its motion was granted. The district court held that Plaintiffs-Appellants had failed to plead that…
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