9th Circuit Affirms Toss Of Conservative Group’s YouTube 1st Amendment Suit

Mealey's (March 18, 2020, 7:19 AM EDT) -- SEATTLE — Concluding that YouTube LLC is a private entity, despite its size and ubiquity, a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Feb. 26 upheld the dismissal of a conservative organization’s claims that the video-hosting platform’s censoring of its videos violated the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution because it is not a state actor (Prager University v. Google LLC, et al., No. 18-15712, 9th Cir., 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 5903)....