In the news today:
The family of a teenage girl who says she was sexually assaulted by a 19-year-old man she met on MySpace.com asked a federal appeals court Monday to revive their lawsuit against the social networking Web site.
A federal judge in Austin, Texas, dismissed the $30 million suit in February 2007, rejecting the family's claim that MySpace has a legal duty to protect its young users from sexual predators.
U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks also ruled that interactive computer services like MySpace are immune from such lawsuits under the Communications Decency Act of 1996.
The girl's family asked the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans to overturn Sparks' rulings. A three-judge panel heard arguments Monday from lawyers on both sides of the case, but didn't immediately rule on the appeal. source
That's why we need to be careful in meeting somebody especially strangers. Look at what happened..
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