United States Ninth Circuit

A computer match-making service is statutorily immune under the circumstances, pursuant to 47 U.S.C. section 230(c)(1), from legal liability arising from false content contained in a dating profile provided by someone posing as another person.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/02/2003
• Decided 08/13/2003
• Published 08/13/2003

Judges

• THOMAS, Circuit Judge., Before THOMAS, PAEZ, Circuit Judges, and REED, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stephen F. Rohde and Mechele M. Berencsi, Rohde & Victoroff, Los Angeles, California, for the appellant., Patrick J. Carome, Samir Jain, and C. Colin Rushing;  Wilmer Cutler & Pickering, Washington, DC;  for amici curiae America Online, Inc., eBay, Inc., the Internet Commerce Coalition, and the United States Internet Service Provider Association.  Laura A. Heymann, America Online, Inc., Dulles, Virginia;  Michael J. Richter and Tod Cohen, eBay, Inc., San Jose, California;  James J. Halpert, Piper Rudnick, LLP, Washington, DC;  and Stewart A. Baker, Steptoe & Johnson, Washington, DC, were also on the brief., Deborah Pierce and Linda Ackerman, Privacyactivism, San Francisco, California, for amici curiae The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), Gavin De Becker, Privacyactivism, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, and the Screen Actors Guild (SAG).


• For Appellees:
  
• Timothy L. Alger, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, LLP, Los Angeles, California, for the appellee.