Judge Finds Online-Speech Shield Bars EPA Enforcement Suit Against eBay

A federal district judge has held that a telecommunications law usually applied to shield websites and social-media companies from liability for their users’ speech protects eBay from EPA’s novel enforcement suit accusing it of facilitating sales of products banned under federal air, toxics and pesticides laws. The Sept. 30 decision , by Judge Orelia E. Merchant of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, could frustrate any efforts by EPA to curb third-party sales of illegal...