Our firm represented Twitter, Inc. and Twitter International Company (hereinafter: “Twitter”) in a well-publicized lawsuit filed against them on behalf of Mr. Dori Ben Israel, owner of the news blog “Mizbala,” in which he requested, among other things, that the court order Twitter to cancel the permanent suspension of the Twitter accounts that were in his use. According to Mr. Ben Israel, the Twitter accounts he used were “blocked” because he disseminated in them his views and struggles against multinational corporations. As part of the proceeding, the court granted Mr. Ben Israel an ex parte order with regard to a motion for a leave to service outside the jurisdiction which was filed (ex parte) on behalf of Mr. Ben Israel.
In a precedent-setting ruling, the court granted our motion to dismiss the leave to service, while charging Mr. Ben Israel with legal expenses, and while issuing a precedent-setting ruling, which analyzed, among other things, the (lack of) possibility of applying Israeli public-law rules to a non-local corporation, the guardians law as it applies to social media network, the possibility of granting a motion to dismiss of a leave to service due to bad faith and the interface with the “cause of action,” the manner in which the court discusses leave-to-service permits in light of the new Israeli procedural regulations, and other issues.
Twitter was represented by Partner Eli Cohen and Associate Oren Meiri.
