The Texas Supreme Court has allowed a lawsuit over Salesforce's role in helping Backpage...
The undulation glass facade of the new Salesforce building known as Salesforce East at 350 Mission Street in San Francisco, CA, on Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017.A novel lawsuit against a tech company over its relationship with a website shuttered in 2018 for its role in promoting sex trafficking will advance to trial after the Texas Supreme Court rejected attorneys’ request to dismiss the case.
“This is an important win,” said Annie McAdams, one of the attorneys representing several alleged victims. “The efforts of big tech to delay this are over. They fought and delayed this for three years. Now it can proceed on the merits.”MORE ON TECH LAWSUITS:Court filings against Salesforce allege the company sold its customer relationship management software to Backpage and that it helped the online website expand its sex trafficking.
Attorneys for Salesforce had argued the company was immune from lawsuits against it because of Section 230 in a 1990s law called the Communications Decency Act, which was an attempt to regulate pornography on the internet The Texas Supreme Court’s decision comes after the court in 2021 also allowed a case filed by three alleged victims of human trafficking against Facebook to move forward on similar grounds.
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