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JONES v. DIRTY WORLD ENTERTAINMENT RECORDINGS LLC

No. 13-5946.

755 F.3d 398 (2014)

Sarah JONES, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. DIRTY WORLD ENTERTAINMENT RECORDINGS LLC, et al., Defendants, Hooman Karamian, aka Nik Richie, aka Corbin Grimes; Dirty World, LLC, dba thedirty.com, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: June 16, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: David S. Gingras , Gingras Law Office, PLLC, Phoenix, Arizona, for Appellants. Christopher D. Roach , Eric C. Deters & Partners, P.S.C., Independence, Kentucky, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: David S. Gingras , Gingras Law Office, PLLC, Phoenix, Arizona, Alexander C. Ward , Alexis B. Mattingly , Huddleston Bolen, LLP, Ashland, Kentucky, for Appellants.

Eric C. Deters , Eric C. Deters & Partners, P.S.C., Independence, Kentucky, for Appellee. Marc J. Randazza , Randazza Legal Group, Las Vegas, Nevada, John C. Greiner , Graydon Head & Ritchey LLP, Cincinnati, Ohio, Patrick J. Carome , Samir C. Jain , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Washington, D.C., Junis L. Baldon , Frost Brown Todd LLC, Louisville, Kentucky, William E. Sharp , Aclu of Kentucky, Louisville, Kentucky for Amici Curiae.

Before GUY, GIBBONS, and GRIFFIN, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

JULIA SMITH GIBBONS, Circuit Judge.

This case presents the issue of whether the Communications Decency Act of 1996 (CDA), 47 U.S.C. § 230, bars the state-law defamation claims of plaintiff-appellee Sarah Jones. Jones was the unwelcome subject of several posts anonymously uploaded to www.TheDirty.com, a popular website operated by defendants-appellants Nik Lamas-Richie and DIRTY WORLD, LLC ("Dirty World"), and of remarks Richie posted on the...

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