Supreme Court won't hear tech liability challenge from teen groomed on Snapchat

The Supreme Court will not consider a challenge to the scope of a federal law immunizing tech companies from liability for their users’ content brought by a teenager who was allegedly groomed by a teacher on Snapchat. 

The anonymous Texas teen said his high school science teacher used the image-based instant messaging app to groom him, induce his drug abuse and then sexually assault him when he was 15 years old. 

The teen sought to hold Snap, Inc. liable for having “negligently...