United States Ninth Circuit

A service provider or user is immune from liability under - 230(c)(1) when a third person or entity that created or developed the information in question, furnished it to the provider or user under circumstances in which a reasonable person in the position of the service provider or user would conclude that the information was provided for publication on the Internet or other "interactive computer service."

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/04/2002
• Decided 06/24/2003
• Published 06/24/2003

Judges

• Before CANBY, GOULD, and BERZON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Paul Alan Levy, Public Citizen Litigation Group, Washington, DC, for the amicus curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Stephen J. Newman, Latham & Watkins, and Robert P. Long, Kinkle, Rodiger & Spriggs, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendants-appellants/appellees., Howard S. Fredman, Los Angeles, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee/appellant.