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Re: more bad lawyering about Parler


From: "John Levine" <johnl () iecc com>
Date: 11 Jan 2021 08:59:12 -0500

In article <CAP-guGWOFB0udj7KcDSZpnzCeSqSoVv7H8-TVu6jkOPXk=Yt2A () mail gmail com> you write:
Well, for example, Oberdorf v. Amazon.com, No. 18-1041 (3rd Cir. July
3, 2019) which found that Amazon was a seller of goods and not merely
hosting information about a third party's sale, and thus subject to
product liability law for the product that was sold. But in the Erie
Insurance case, with similar circumstances, the court found the
opposite, that section 230 barred the plaintiff from suing Amazon over
a defective third-party product.

Good citations, but really, an edge case if you are not an online
marketplace hosting third-party sellers.

R's,
John


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