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Federal law gives MySpace.com immunity from a lawsuit over the alleged sexual assault of a teenage girl by a man she met on the social networking Web site, a federal appeals court ruled Friday...Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit that a Texas girl's family filed against MySpace and its parent company, News Corp.
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FlagFederal law gives MySpace.com immunity from a lawsuit over the alleged sexual assault of an Austin teenager by a man she met on the social networking Web site, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. The girl, known as Julie Doe in the lawsuit, was a 14-year-old Bowie High School student when she agreed to meet Pete Ignacio Solis of Buda, who was 19 when the incident happened in 2006.
Circuit Court of Appeals' decision Friday upholds the dismissal of the lawsuit. The Texas girl's family had sued MySpace and its parent company, News Corp., claiming that MySpace didn't protect young users from sexual predators. The court says federal law bars such lawsuits against Web-based services like MySpace.
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