Google Consents to Amicus Briefs in SCOTUS Social Media Case

Outside counsel to Google consented to the filing of amicus briefs at the Supreme Court in Reynaldo Gonzalez v. Google, said the lawyer's letter Tuesday in docket 21-1333. The case is one of two related appeals of appellate court decisions on social media companies' legal protections in which SCOTUS granted certiorari Oct. 3 (see 2210110030). The petitioner is the estate of Nohemi Gonzalez, a U.S. citizen who was killed in ISIS attacks in 2015. The petitioner asked SCOTUS to revisit the 9th Circuit's holding that the Communications Decency Act's Section 230 protects YouTube's algorithm for recommending videos.