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Internet Service Providers Found Immune over Posted Comments in NY

The NY court's decision will be cited in CDA cases across the country and is likely to limit, but not eliminate, future litigation against ISPs, as future cases are likely to focus on the extent to which an ISP can be considered a "content provider.

27 minute read August 29, 2011 at 11:15 AM
By
Shari Claire Lewis
Internet Service Providers Found Immune over Posted Comments in NY

More than a decade ago, in Lunney v. Prodigy Servs. Co., 94 N.Y.2d 242 (1999), the New York Court of Appeals declined, as premature, a request to decide whether to adopt a broad interpretation of immunity for Internet Service Providers under '230 of the federal Communications Decency Act (CDA).

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