Amicus Asks High Court To Decide If CDA Immunity Nixed By Anti-Competitive Animus

Mealey's (June 2, 2020, 2:42 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — On May 21, civil liberties organization The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed an amicus curiae brief in the U.S. Supreme Court supporting Malwarebytes Inc.’s petition for certiorari in a dispute over the interpretation of the Communications Decency Act (CDA), arguing that the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals wrongly held that the statute’s immunity provision for content-filtering tool providers does not permit blocking of content because of “anticompetitive animus” (Malwarebytes Inc. v. Enigma Software Group USA LLC, No. 19-1284, U.S. Sup.)....