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FAIR HOUSING COUNCIL v. ROOMMATES.COM, LLC

Nos. 04-56916, 04-57173.

489 F.3d 921 (2007)

FAIR HOUSING COUNCIL OF SAN FERNANDO VALLEY; The Fair Housing Council of San Diego, individually and on behalf of the General Public, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. ROOMMATES.COM, LLC, Defendant-Appellee. Fair Housing Council of San Fernando Valley; The Fair Housing Council of San Diego, individually and on behalf of the General Public, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Roommate.com, LLC, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed May 15, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary Rhoades, Rhoades & Al-Mansour, Los Angeles, CA; Michael Evans, Costa Mesa, CA; and Christopher Brancart, Brancart & Brancart, Pescadero, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellants.

Timothy L. Alger, Lesley E. Williams and Steven B. Stiglitz, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendant-appellee.

Patrick J. Carome, Samir Jain and C. Colin Rushing, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr, LLP, Washington, DC, as amici curiae in support of the defendant-appellee.

Before: STEPHEN REINHARDT, ALEX KOZINSKI and SANDRA S. IKUTA, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge KOZINSKI; Partial Concurrence and Partial Dissent by Judge REINHARDT; Concurrence by Judge IKUTA.

KOZINSKI, Circuit Judge.

We consider the scope of immunity accorded to an online roommate matching service by the Communications Decency Act ("CDA"), 47 U.S.C. § 230(c).

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