U.S. District Judge William Orrick III of the Northern District of California, in a 15-page order, ruled that Twitter is shielded from liability under the Communications Decency Act for content that is published by third parties using the service.
Moreover, Orrick said the plaintiffs lawyers at Bursor & Fisher have failed to draw a clear line of causation between the many Twitter accounts run by ISIS supporters and the attack in Jordan, which was carried out by a Jordanian police captain named Anwar Abu Zaid.
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