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Twitter account suspension lawsuit overview:
- Who: A lawsuit filed by Saudi Arabian political dissident Ali Al-Ahmed against Twitter has been dismissed for the second time by a California federal judge.
- Why: The federal judge overseeing the complaint ruled Al-Ahmed did not have standing for his claims, that he made them too late, and that Twitter is protected from them by the Communications Decency Act.
- Where: The lawsuit was filed in California federal court.
A federal judge in California has for the second time let Twitter off the hook of a lawsuit alleging it allowed a prominent Saudi Arabian political dissidents account to be hacked, before it was ultimately suspended.
Ali Al-Ahmed claimed in an amended complaint that Twitter allowed a pair of its own employees to infiltrate his account in order to give his information to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, before allegedly helping conceal evidence of what was allegedly done.
The judge overseeing the complaint ruled — for a second time — that Al-Ahmed does not have standing to make the claims, that he made them outside of the statute of limitations, and that Twitter is shielded from them by the Communications Decency Act.
“As the Court explained in its first order granting dismissal, Al-Ahmed’s argument that Twitter’s notice was insufficient because it did not identify the ‘state-sponsored’ actors as Twitter employees is unconvincing,” the judge wrote, in an order granting Twitter’s motion to dismiss.
Saudi Arabian political dissident granted asylum in U.S. has Twitter account suspended
Al-Ahmed was granted political asylum in the U.S. after being a vigorous critic of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, reports Law360, but had his Twitter account suspended in May 2018, after, he argues, his account was infiltrated by a pair of Twitter employees.
The judge overseeing the complaint has given Al-Ahmed an additional month to once again amend the complaint “with respect to pleading due diligence under the delayed discovery rule only.”
Al-Ahmed filed a separate lawsuit in a New York federal court against Twitter in 2020, arguing at that time that the company looked the other way to alleged torture and suppression committed by the Kingom of Saudi Arabia against dissenters.
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The plaintiff is represented by Randy E. Kleinman of Gerstman Schwartz LLP.
The Twitter account suspension lawsuit is Al-Ahmed v. Twitter Inc., Case No. 3:21-cv-08017, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
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