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describing lack of telephone number verification, rules about posting, and procedure for uploading photographs as "part and parcel of the overall design and operation of the website" and thus "editorial choices that fall within the purview of traditional publisher functions"
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No. 16–276.
01-09-2017
JANE DOE NO. 1, et al., petitioners, v. BACKPAGE.COM, LLC, et al.
Motion of The Human Trafficking Institute, et al. for leave to file a brief as amici curiae granted. Motion of National Center for Missing and Exploited Children for leave to file a brief as amicus curiae granted. Motion of FAIR Girls for leave to file a brief as amicus curiae granted. Motion of Coalition Against Trafficking Women, et al. for leave to file a brief as amici curiae granted. Motion of Professors Chad Flanders, et al. for leave to file a brief as amici curiae granted. Motion of Legal Momentum, et al. for leave to file a brief as amici curiae granted. Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit denied.