The North Dakota Supreme Court has extended to Oct. 31 the deadline for a lower court judge to reconsider his decision to prevent the state’s abortion ban from taking effect, after the judge cited workload and health factors.
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The Supreme Court agreed to hear challenges to the broad liability protections enjoyed by Google, Facebook and other social media companies for the third party content posted on their platforms.
More specifically, the high court will examine whether tech platforms are protected when their algorithms recommend problematic content to users.
The family of Nohemi Gonzalez, who was killed in an ISIS attack in Paris in 2015, sued Google over the videos, alleging that they “aided and abetted” ISIS by allowing ISIS terrorist videos on YouTube as well as including them in users’ recommendations.
The Section 230 provision of the Communications Decency Act generally protects tech platforms from the way that they moderate third party content. That provision has become a target of lawmakers of both parties, with Republicans accusing tech giants of censoring conservative viewpoints and Democrats arguing that the companies have not done enough to root out misinformation.
In its brief, Google’s attorneys argued that it was protected by Section 230. They wrote in a brief that a“search algorithm takes the information the user puts in the search box and displays the information most likely to be of interest. Likewise, YouTube takes user inputs—like previous videos watched—and displays thumbnail videos of potential interest.”
“This Court should not lightly adopt a reading of section 230 that would threaten the basic organizationaldecisions of the modern internet,” Google’s attorneys wrote.
The high court also agreed to take another case involving another family’s claims that Twitter could be held liable under the Anti-Terrorism Act.
The North Dakota Supreme Court has extended to Oct. 31 the deadline for a lower court judge to reconsider his decision to prevent the state’s abortion ban from taking effect, after the judge cited workload and health factors.
A man accused of sending money to women in the Philippines to live stream the sexual abuse of children on Skype has appeared at court. Bernard Grace attended a short hearing at Manchester and Salford Magistrates Court today (October 13) and pleaded not guilty to 17 charges over a five year period, beginning in November 2017.
oral arguments in a copyright case on Wednesday, setting up a hypothetical in which he was “a Prince fan, which I was in the ’80s.”That comment prompted liberal Justice Elena Kagan to interject, “No longer?”And Thomas responded to laughter: “So only on a Thursday night.” The case involves a photographer who is suing the Andy Warhol Foundation arguing that the artist, who died in 1987, breached her copyright by using her 1981 portrait of the pop star for a series of images Warhol created for Vanity Fair in 1984. (The magazine had paid photographer Lynn Goldsmith $400 to use her portrait as an “artist’s reference.”) The case could have big implications across media about the “fair use” of existing artistic images and works, and what might be owed to copyright owners from later artists who create follow-on works.
The Supreme Court heard a consequential copyright case on Wednesday, having to do with whether Andy Warhol’s estate owes a photographer a licensing fee for basing his portraits on Prince on one of her works.
Judges in the Supreme Court heard evidence for and against First Minster Nicola Sturgeon's plan to hold a second independence referendum for the second and final day today.
SNP ministers have been accused of "farming out" IndyRef2 legislation to the Supreme Court because they didn't like answers from their top law officer.
The Ohio Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered a Democratic state legislative candidate to be listed on November ballots, after a tie had been broken against her by the state's Republican elections chief. In its 4-3 ruling, the high court found Republican Secretary Frank LaRose and the two GOP members of the Athens County Board of Elections who voted against placing Tanya Conrath on the Nov. 8 ballot "acted in clear disregard of applicable law." Conrath is challenging incumbent Republican Rep.
A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from a Black Texas death row inmate who argued he didn't get a fair trial because jurors who convicted him objected to interracial marriage. The court’s three liberal justices dissented from the court’s order turning away the appeal from inmate Andre Thomas. He was sentenced to death for killing his estranged wife, who was white, and two children in 2004.
The Supreme Court has denied an appeal made by mass murderer Dylan Roof, who was convicted of killing nine people in a shooting at a Black church in 2015. Roof had asked the court to decide how to handle disputes over mental illness-related evidence between capital defendants and their attorneys.
Protesters have hit out at "unelected judges" being asked to decide whether the Scottish Parliament has the legal power to call a referendum on independence.
Nicola Sturgeon has said she is "hopeful and optimistic" that judges will rule in the Scottish Government's favour when they assess her referendum plan.
Ginni Thomas is once again at the center of controversy and accusations of conflict of interest after an analysis of the 74 amicus briefs filed with the U.S. Supreme Court aimed at overturning Roe v Wade found she was linked to just over half of the legal entreaties to end a woman’s right to choose.“A new analysis of the written legal arguments, or ‘amicus briefs,’ used to lobby the justices as they deliberated over abortion underlines the extent to which Clarence Thomas’s wife was intertwined with this vast pressure campaign,” The Guardian reports.
Delaware’s Supreme Court on Friday ruled that recently passed laws allowing universal vote by mail and same-day registration are unconstitutional, marking a win for state Republicans who had rallied against the legislation. The court found that the two moves conflict with the registration and absentee voter categories outlined in the First State’s constitution. It upheld a prior ruling by the state’s vice chancellor, which rejected the vote-by-mail law, while overturning his upholding of the Election Day registration law.
The Kentucky Supreme Court will travel to Shelbyville next week to hear oral arguments and answer questions from the audience. The court usually hears cases in Frankfort but is going to Shelbyville as part of a public education program that was started in 1985. Sessions have been held in locations across the state.
The West Virginia Supreme Court overturned a circuit court’s decision to block a school choice program. The West Virginia Supreme Court reversed a previous circuit court injunction on the Hope Scholarship Program, opening the door for families across the state to access flexible educational opportunities.
Kanye West has attracted the ire of Tremaine Emory, creative director for Supreme, after West accused Bernard Arnault, CEO of LVMH, of "killing [his] best friend" Virgil Abloh. Abloh became the artistic director of Louis Vuitton's menswear collection in 2018 and passed away from cancer in 2021.
America’s Finest News Source” on Monday filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court that was altogether serious in its support of a free-speech case before the panel, while also absurdly inside-out ridiculous in its parodic delivery.And it might be the funniest thing The Onion has written in a long, long time.The document backs the plaintiff in Novak v. City of Parma, the Ohio town where Anthony Novak created a Facebook page to parody the local police department’s.
Deadline reported. Still, the lawsuit will likely stay on hold for some time, as the actor will first stand trial next week in Los Angeles Superior Court over criminal rape charges involving three of the four women suing him.On June 17, 2020 the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office charged Danny with raping three women in separate incidents in 2001 and 2003 at his Hollywood Hills home. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the DA's office declined to file sexual assault charges against the former "The Ranch" star in two other investigations due to insufficient evidence in one case and because the statute of limitations had passed for the other.