Justices at the United States Supreme Court have expressed uncertainty over whether to narrow a legal shield protecting internet companies from a wide array of lawsuits, in a major case involving YouTube and the family of an American student fatally shot in a 2015 rampage in Paris.The justices heard arguments in an appeal by the family of Nohemi Gonzalez, a 23-year-old student at California State University, Long Beach, who was studying in France, after a lower court dismissed their lawsuit against Google LLC-owned YouTube. Google and YouTube are part of Alphabet Inc.In dismissing the lawsuit, the San Francisco-based 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals relied on a federal law called Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, which protects internet companies from liability for content posted by their users.
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