Cox Communications, Inc. v. Sony Music Entertainment · ¶71
This Court held that the platforms could not be held liable as aiders and abettors based on the complaint's allegations. After surveying lower court cases and common-law sources, the Court identified the “conceptual core that has animated aiding-and-abetting liability for centuries: that the defendant consciously and culpably `participate[s]' in a wrongful act so as to help `make it succeed.' ” Id., at 493 (quoting Nye & Nis sen v. United States, 336 U. S. 613, 619 (1949)). Put another way, “the defendant has to take some `affrmative act' `with the intent of facilitating the offense's commission.' ” 598 U. S., at 490 (quoting Rosemond v. United States, 572 U. S. 65, 71 (2014)). The plaintiffs' claims did not plausibly meet this standard, however, because they failed to allege that pro-ISIS accounts or content received “any special treatment.” 598 U. S., at 498. Nor did they allege any…Read in context ›
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