Doe v. Grindr Inc.
Petition for certiorari denied on October 14, 2025.
Issue
(1) Whether Section 230(c)(1) of the Communications Decency Act immunizes apps from liability for their own conduct in marketing and designing defective products and without providing sufficient warnings; (2) whether the following activities traditional publishing functions that justify dismissal on a Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6) motion under Section 230: (a) determining who is offered access to an app, (b) extracting unpublished location data from users, or (c) algorithmically recommending nearby strangers to one another for in-person encounters; and (3) whether a sex hookup app is not liable for trafficking pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 1591 or 18 U.S.C. § 1595 even if it knowingly profits from intentionally marketing to children and recommending them to nearby adults for sex.
Recommended Citation: Doe v. Grindr Inc., SCOTUSblog, https://www.scotusblog.com/cases/doe-v-grindr-inc/