Terror-Aiding Claims Against Social Networks Dismissed For Lack Of Causation

(December 11, 2018, 9:55 AM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A terror attack survivor’s claims against Twitter Inc., Facebook Inc. and Google LLC under the Antiterrorism Act (ATA) were dismissed with prejudice Nov. 29, with a California federal judge finding that she failed to establish proximate cause or knowing and substantial assistance by the social networks related to the 2016 Nice, France, terror attack (Kimberly Copeland v. Twitter Inc., et al., No. 3:17-cv-05851, N.D. Calif., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 202669)....