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"Court sides with MySpace in suit over sex assault"

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"Court sides with MySpace in suit over sex assault": The Associated Press provides a report that begins, "Federal law gives MySpace.com immunity from a lawsuit over the alleged sexual assault of a teenage girl by a man she met on the social networking Web site, a federal appeals court ruled Friday."

You can access today's ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Doe v. MySpace Inc at this link. Footnote one of today's ruling helpfully explains that "The term 'blog' is a portmanteau of 'Web log' and is a term referring to an online journal or diary."

On February 14, 2007, I had this post collecting coverage of the federal district court's ruling that dismissed the lawsuit.

Full post as published by How Appealing on May 16, 2008 (boomark / email).

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