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FIELDS v. TWITTER, INC.

No. 16-17165.

881 F.3d 739 (2018)

Tamara FIELDS, on behalf of herself, as a representative of the Estate of Lloyd Fields, Jr.; Heather Creach, on behalf of herself and as a representative of the Estate of James Damon Creach; J.C. (1), a minor; J.C. (2), a minor, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. TWITTER, INC., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed January 31, 2018.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joshua D. Arisohn (argued), L. Timothy Fisher , and Scott A. Bursor , Bursor & Fisher P.A., Walnut Creek, California, New York, New York, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Seth P. Waxman (argued), Patrick J. Carome , and Ari Holtzblatt , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Washington, D.C.; Mark D. Flanagan , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Palo Alto, California; for Defendant-Appellee.

Aaron Mackey , Jamie Williams , and Sophia Cope , Electronic Frontier Foundation, San Francisco, California, for Amici Curiae Electronic Frontier Foundation and Center for Democracy & Technology.

Sonali D. Maitra , Durie Tangri LLP, San Francisco, California, for Amicus Curiae Internet Association.

Catherine R. Gellis , Sausalito, California, for Amicus Curiae Floor 64 Inc. DBA The Copia Institute.

Before: MILAN D. SMITH, JR. and SANDRA S. IKUTA, Circuit Judges, and STEVEN J. McAULIFFE, District Judge.

OPINION

After Lloyd "Carl" Fields, Jr., and James Damon Creach were killed while working as government contractors in Jordan in an attack for which ISIS claimed credit, Plaintiffs-Appellants sued Defendant-Appellee Twitter, Inc. (Twitter) pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 2333(a), the civil remedies provision of the...

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