Armslist Online Gun Sale Case Won’t Get Supreme Court Review

Nov. 25, 2019, 2:36 PM UTC

The daughter of a mass shooting victim lost her bid to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court that Armslist LLC should be held liable for selling the killer a gun online.

The justices Nov. 25 denied a petition by Yasmeen Daniel to review a Wisconsin Supreme Court decision that a federal online publisher law prohibited her from suing the firearms website.

The high court turned down the chance to review the scope of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which grants websites broad immunity from liability for user-posted content. Several bills are pending in Congress to change the decades-old ...

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