Legal Opinion
Jones v. Dirty World Entertainment Recordings LLC
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided June 16, 2014No. 13-5946PublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
JULIA SMITH GIBBONS, Circuit Judge.
This case presents the issue of whether the Communications Decency Act of 1996 (CDA), 47 U.S.C. § 230, bars the state-law defamation claims of plaintiff-appellee Sarah Jones. Jones was the unwelcome subject of several posts anonymously uploaded to www.TheDirty.com, a popular website operated by defendants-appellants Nik Lamas-Richie and DIRTY WORLD, LLC (“Dirty World”), and of remarks Richie posted on the site. The website enables users to anonymously upload comments, photographs, and video, which Richie then selects and publishes along with his own…
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