more bad lawyering about Parler

Mon Jan 11 13:59:12 UTC 2021

In article <CAP-guGWOFB0udj7KcDSZpnzCeSqSoVv7H8-TVu6jkOPXk=Yt2A at 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