Category: Tort Law

Is Social Media the Next Big Tobacco? Public Nuisance Litigation and the Limits of Section 230

Kennedy Aikey examines the growing wave of litigation against major social media companies, specifically the recent case holding Meta and YouTube liable, and asks whether social media could become the next Big Tobacco. She explores how plaintiffs use nuisance theories to argue that platforms such as Meta, YouTube, TikTok, and Snap Inc. intentionally designed addictive platforms that harm youth mental health. She also analyzes whether claims that focus on the design of social media platforms, rather than on user-generated content, could allow plaintiffs to bypass the liability shield created by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

Careful How You Cut That! Critiquing Ohio’s “Boneless Wing” Case and the Bill Proposed to Fix It

In this article, JT DeGrinney critiques Ohio’s proposed Senate Bill 38, which was introduced in response to the Supreme Court of Ohio’s controversial Berkheimer v. REKM, L.L.C. decision about “boneless” chicken wings. He suggests that the bill as currently written might not achieve its desired effect and proposes changes that might help the bill accomplish its intended purpose.

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