Court rejects family’s suit against MySpace

From Netfamily
A federal appeals court upheld the dismissal of a Texas family's $30 million sexual-assault case against MySpace. The court ruled that the Communications Decency Act of 1996 "bars such lawsuits against Web-based services like MySpace," the Associated Press reports <http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ivBsvDUeL16-pNrwm3NHJjfDC1_AD90N15E81>. The case was dismissed by a federal court in Austin last year (see this item <http://www.netfamilynews.org/nl070216.html#6>). The girl had created a profile on MySpace when she was below the site's minimum age of 14 but characterized herself as 18 and - after meeting a 19-year-old man who apparently got her phone number by claiming he was a high school football player - said she was assaulted by him after she went out on a date with him in 2006 (my original item on this was "Teen sues MySpace" <http://www.netfamilynews.org/nl060623.html#3>).