What cases can be used as precedent when social media hasn’t been around long enough to fill a body of case law on every issue? California’s Supreme Court recently answered that question when deciding a jurisdictional issue, according to Kirk Jenkins in a post on the Sedgwick’s The Appellate Strategist blog.
The case in point is Burdick v. Superior Court (Sanderson), which Jenkins describes as a defamation claim case brought by California residents against a competitor resulting from a Facebook post. The court recently ordered the case to be reviewed and sent back to the Fourth Appellate District. The order is “significant as a potential signal of issues likely to reach the Court in the next year or two,” Jenkins writes.
