Gonzalez v. Google LLC (598 U.S. 617)
U.S. Supreme Court · decided May 18, 2023 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Citation
- 598 U.S. 617 · 143 S. Ct. 1191
- Decided
- May 18, 2023
- Term
- October Term 2022
- Vote
- 9–0
- Issue area
- Economic Activity
- Disposition
- Vacated and remanded
- Outcome
- Petitioning party lost
- Ideological direction
- Conservative
Opinion excerpt
(Slip Opinion) Cite as: 598 U. S. ____ (2023) 1 Per Curiam NOTICE: This opinion is subject to formal revision before publication in the United States Reports. Readers are requested to notify the Reporter of Decisions, Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, D. C. 20543, pio@supremecourt.gov, of any typographical or other formal errors. SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES _________________ No. 21–1333 _________________ REYNALDO GONZALEZ, ET AL., PETITIONERS v. GOOGLE LLC ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT [May 18, 2023] PER CURIAM. In 2015, ISIS terrorists unleashed a set of coordinated at- tacks across Paris, France, killing 130 victims, including Nohemi Gonzalez, a 23-year-old U. S. citizen.1 Gonzalez’s parents and brothers then sued Google, LLC, under 18 U. S. C. §§2333 (a) and (d)(2), alleging that Google was both directly and secondarily liable for the terrorist attack that killed Gonzalez.2 For their secondary-liability claims, —————— 1 “ISIS” is shorthand for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. In some form or another, it has been designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization since 2004; ISIS has also been known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, al Qaeda in Iraq, and the al-Zarqawi Network. 2 Title 18 U. S. C. §2333 (a) provides: “Any national of the United States injured in his or her person, property, or…
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