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By Eric Goldman Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights under the Law, Inc. v. Craigslist, Inc., 1:06-CV-00657 (N.D. Ill. Nov. 14 ... 230's parameters--other prominent examples of this trend include the 7th Circuit Doe v. GTE case and two recent 11th Circuit cases. In this case, the judge questions ... , even though the judge acknowledges that she is attacking an "essentially uniform body of case law" (a particularly perilous endeavor in dicta). I'd like to explain how the judge picked a fight with ...

... post that appeared on May It Please The Court just after Judge St. Eve ruled last year on Craigslist's motion for judgment on the pleadings. After the court denied plaintiff's subsequent motion to reconsider, plaintiff appealed, ... started the case by issuing a briefing schedule. Appellant Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc.'s ("CLC") brief is due October 9, Appellee Craigslist's brief is due November 20, and CLC's reply brief is due December 7, 2007. It will be interesting ...

... here in Chicago, heard oral arguments in the plaintiff's appeal of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. ("CLC") v. Craigslist Inc. ("Craigslist"). CLC, as you may recall, is appealing District Judge St. ... 's assertions that Craigslist has essentially conceded that filtering is possible, given its purported efforts in this area to date, and that Craigslist could reduce the occurrence of inappropriate ads by employing dropdown menus (for example (mine), one could choose to ...

Earlier today the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, based here in Chicago, heard oral arguments in the plaintiff's appeal of Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. ("CLC") v. Craigslist Inc. ("Craigslist"). CLC, as you may recall, is appealing District Judge St. Eve's ruling that Section 230 protects Craigslist [...]

The Seventh Circuit will hear oral argument (fifteen minutes per side) in Chicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law, Inc. v. Craigslist Inc. on February 15, 2008. We won't know the panel's composition until the morning of, but I'm crossing my fingers Judge Easterbrook will be selected so we can see how his thinking has evolved, if at all, since the Circuit's 2003 GTE ruling. The GTE panel ...

... of an interactive computer service under 47 USC 230(c)(1), and that as such it is entitled to immunity as an information content provider. Craigslist was then granted judgment on the pleadings. For a more detailed summary of the case, check out Richard Balough's summary here, along with a link to the decision. Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law, Inc. v. Craigslist, Inc., Northern District Illinois, Eastern Division, Case No. 06 C 0657, ...

... Not a secondary liability regime. Eric Goldman blogged about the decision in Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law v. Craigslist, Inc., No. 07-1101 (7th Cir. March 14, 2008). He says, "I don't think there's ... cries out for correction: "Grokster is incompatible with treating §230(c)(1) as a grant of comprehensive immunity from civil liability for content provided by a third party." What? Grokster is, as I recall, a copyright case. Section 230 explicitly excludes ...