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"Family Pursues MySpace Sex Assault Suit"

"Family Pursues MySpace Sex Assault Suit": The Associated Press provides a report that begins, "The family of a teenage girl who says she was sexually assaulted by a 19-year-old man she met on MySpace.com asked a federal appeals court Monday to revive their lawsuit against the social networking Web site. A federal judge in Austin, Texas, dismissed the $30 million suit in February 2007, rejecting the family's claim that MySpace has a legal duty to protect its young users from sexual predators. U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks also ruled that interactive computer services like MySpace are immune from such lawsuits under the Communications Decency Act of 1996."

My earlier coverage of the trial court's ruling appeared in this post from February 14, 2007.

Full post as published by How Appealing on April 01, 2008 (boomark / email).