In a typical month, Craigslist (www.craigslist.com) allows its users to freely post more than 10 million free ads on its Web sites, which are localized by city.
Recently, a group of Chicago lawyers sued Craigslist Inc., says Inman.com, alleging violations of the federal Fair Housing Act (FHA). They claimed that Craigslist publishes housing notices that blatently "indicate preference, limitation or discrimination on the prohibited basis of race, color, national origin, sex, religion or familial status."
Craigslist argued that it wasn't liable, because of the immunity afforded to Web site operators by the federal Communications Decency Act (CDA) for third-party content.
The judge ruled in Craigslist's favor, affirming that the service isn't liable for the content provided/posted by its users.
The article did not state whether the lawyers were going to sue the individual posters of the discriminatory ads.
Source: Inman News, via Yahoo
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