Rutenburg
Rutenburg v. Twitter, Inc.
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 5 MARIA RUTENBURG, Case No. 4:21-cv-00548-YGR
Plaintiff, ORDER DISMISSING CASE FOR LACK OF
SUBJECT-MATTER JURISDICTION
v.
TWITTER, INC., Re: Dkt. Nos. 11, 16 Defendant.
11 Plaintiff Maria Rutenburg brings this action against defendant Twitter, Inc. based on Twitter’s decisions to: (1) delete, remove, and/or apply warning labels to certain tweets regarding dishonest claims of election fraud from former President Donald Trump’s account; and (2) suspend and thereafter permanently remove Trump’s Twitter account from the Twitter platform. As alleged in the complaint and reflected in the record, Twitter took these actions in response to Trump’s promotion of a stolen election, as well as the inflammatory tweets to the now infamous insurrection at the United States Capitol in January 6, 2021. Based on these actions, Rutenburg brings one cause of action, a violation of Rutenburg’s federal constitutional rights under the First and…