Oftentimes a case may be won due to one piece of evidence which the court or opponent improperly handled or overlooked. Seeking an appellate court's reconsideration of a trial outcome can be daunting task. While oftentime, difficult, we are willing to assist you in a timely appeal if we feel there is merit to such an undertaking. Call us to discuss any such matter further.
In a civil Federal case, parallel to one of our age based appeals, a Federal Court refused to hold MySpace liable after they were sued by a young girl's parents when she lied about her age on MySpace which led to her assault by a MySpace user. See, In Re Doe v. MySpace. The Court refused to financially reward bad actors and liars, even if a minor, especially when her own lies led to the harmful contact.
Since several suits relating to age have arisen in Courts around the country, MySpace no longer allows a minor to post an adult profile and alter it later on and vice versa. Also, "minors" cannot contact be contacted by any adults on MySpace. However, this is not enough. This does not protect our children who frequently socialize on the internet. Hopefully someday soon our laws will require all internet social network sites, including MySpace, to verify their user's ages. ISP and social network sites like MySpace and Craigslist should be proactive and voluntarily remove children and ilegal activity ads from their sites, especially if they do not card their users in any effective manner.
Having handled several matters involving age based lawsuits, we strongly feel our legislators should create laws which mandates that the internet, like bars, card its users. This is especially important when use of these internet sites might lead to meetings between children and adults, whether mistakenly or not. Till then - internet users and parents BEWARE and also adult users seeking liasons via the net.
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