. v. TAAMNEH

No. 21-1496.

143 S.Ct. 1206 (2023)

598 U.S. 471

TWITTER, INC., Petitioner v. Mehier TAAMNEH, et al.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 18, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Seth P. Waxman , Washington, DC, for petitioner.

Eric Schnapper , Seattle, WA, for respondents.

Edwin S. Kneedler , Deputy Solicitor General, for United States as amicus curiae, by special leave of the Court, supporting reversal.

Kent Walker , Halimah Delaine Prado, Cassandra Knight, Renny Hwang , Nora Puckett, Google LLC, Mountain View, CA, for Google LLC.

Jennifer Newstead , Scott Tucker , Sandeep Solanki , Natalie Naugle , Nikki Stitt Sokol , Meta Platforms, Inc., Menlo Park, CA, for Facebook, Inc.

Alex W. Miller , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, New York, NY, Seth P. Waxman , Counsel of Record, Patrick J. Carome , Ari Holtzblatt , Claire H. Chung , Amy Lishinski , Andres C. Salinas , Nathaniel W. Reisinger , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Washington, DC, for Petitioner.

Eric Schnapper , Counsel of Record, University of Washington, School of Law, Seattle, WA, Keith L. Altman , The Law Office of Keith Altman, Farmington Hills, MI, Robert J. Tolchin , The Berkman Law Office, LLC, Brooklyn, NY, Counsel for Respondents.


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