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The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously dismissed Mexico's lawsuit against American gun manufacturers, citing federal law that shields gun companies from liability, and ruling that Mexico failed to sufficiently allege that these companies aided illegal gun sales to Mexico, despite ongoing tensions and efforts to curb cross-border gun flow.
The US Supreme Court has declined to rule on whether YouTube can invoke a federal law that shields internet platforms from legal responsibility for what their users post in a case brought by the family of a woman killed in a terrorist attack. Instead, the court decided that a different law, one allowing suits for “knowingly providing substantial assistance” to terrorists, generally did not apply to tech platforms in the first place. The court’s unanimous decision in the Twitter v. Taamneh case effectively resolved both cases and allowed the justices to avoid difficult questions about the scope of the 1996 law, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
The Supreme Court declined to address the legal liability shield that protects tech platforms from being held responsible for their users' posts, leaving in place a broad liability shield that protects companies like Meta's Facebook and Instagram, Google's YouTube and Twitter from being held liable for their users' speech on their platforms. The court said it made that decision because the complaint "appears to state little, if any, plausible claim for relief."