Amici Ask Supreme Court To Decide If CDA Immunity Applies to Gun-Selling Website

Mealey's (September 5, 2019, 10:38 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an amicus curiae brief filed Sept. 3, a coalition of 27 organizations dedicated to combating domestic violence ask the U.S. Supreme Court to grant certiorari to the daughter of a shooting victim who contends that the operators of an online firearms marketplace should not be entitled to immunity from negligence and wrongful death claims under the Communications Decency Act (CDA), with the amici arguing that the statute’s immunity provision is not intended to shield website operators from liability for their own intentional actions (Yasmeen Daniel v. Armslist LLC, et al., No. 19-153, U.S. Sup.)....