MySpace suit.MySpace The most popular social networking site on the Web, especially for teenagers and people under 30. Founded in 2003 by Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe, MySpace was acquired by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation via its $500 million purchase of parent company Intermix in 2005. Suit: A Texas judge dismissed a lawsuit lawsuit: see procedure; tort. against MySpace.com that placed blame on the popular Web site for not establishing sufficient safeguards to protect underage users. The family of an underage girl, named "Julie Doe DOE - Distributed Object Environment: a distributed object-oriented application framework from SunSoft. " in the suit, sued the site, which is owned by News Corp., last year after she lied about her age on the site and later was sexually assaulted by a man she met on MySpace. "If anyone had a duty to protect Julie Doe, it was her parents, not MySpace," U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks Sam Sparks (b 1939, Austin, Texas) is a federal judge in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas. Early life After graduating Austin High School as senior class president, Sparks received an undergraduate degree from the University of Texas in wrote in his ruling. |
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