Texas Judge Tosses MySpace Lawsuit
Posted on: Thursday, 15 February 2007, 12:00 CST
A federal judge in Texas has dismissed a lawsuit filed against MySpace.com by the parents of a girl allegedly assaulted by a man she met on the Web site.
If anyone had a duty to protect Julie Doe, it was her parents, not MySpace, Judge Sam Sparks wrote in a ruling dismissing the case, the Los Angeles Times reported Thursday.
The parents of the 13-year-old girl had sued News Corp., which owns the popular social-networking Web site, for $30 million, saying the site doesn't protect its members sufficiently. The Times said at least four similar cases are pending in Los Angeles County Superior Court.
In the Texas case, authorities in Travis County have charged a 19-year-old man with sexual assault. Julie Doe listed her age as 18 when she joined MySpace, court documents said.
Judge Sparks, of the U.S. District Court in Austin, applied the 1996 Communications Decency Act, holding MySpace to the same standard as Internet service providers, the Times said.
Source: United Press International
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