Associate Dean Daryl Lim featured in Law.com article on potential Supreme Court Section 230 case

CARLISLE, Pa.—Associate Dean Daryl Lim was featured in Law.com’s national coverage of Doe v. Grindr LLC, a case that could become the U.S. Supreme Court’s first direct ruling on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Lim provided expert commentary on the far-reaching implications for technology platforms and online liability if the court grants certiorari.

Lim explained that the Supreme Court would have a “prime opportunity” to determine whether Section 230 protects not only content moderation but also a platform’s internal design and recommendation systems, issues central to the AI-driven era of user engagement. He noted that a ruling either way would “reshape liability exposure for apps whose core function connects users offline.”

Lim further observed that while narrowing immunity could restrict innovation, “a carefully drawn limitation could affirm that clearly wrongful platform behavior, such as knowingly enabling trafficking or exploiting minors via design, lies outside immunity, restoring some accountability while preserving core protections for neutral platforms.”

The Law.com article, “SCOTUS Weighs Potential Challenge to Section 230 Protections in Case Against Grindr,” was published on October 6, 2025, and written by Kat Black, litigation editor for The Recorder. The piece features commentary from leading legal voices and organizations, including the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). Law.com is one of the most widely read legal news platforms in the United States, offering national coverage of litigation and regulatory developments shaping the legal profession.

Daryl Lim is the H. Laddie Montague Jr. Chair in Law at Penn State Dickinson Law. He is also the Associate Dean for Research & Strategic Partnerships and Founding Director of the Intellectual Property (IP) Law and Innovation Initiative. At the university level, he is a co-hire at the Institute of Computational and Data Sciences and an affiliate at the Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence.

Professor Lim is an award-winning author, observer, and commentator on national and global trends in IP and competition policy and how they influence and are influenced by law, technology, economics, and politics. He helps policymakers, attorneys, corporate counsel, scholars, and the public understand the world around them. He is a founding member of the Global IP Alliance and its local chapters in Pennsylvania and Illinois. In addition, he serves as Co-Chair of the University Education Committee in the US IP Alliance.

In December 2022, the American Law Institute elected Professor Lim to its membership based on demonstrated excellence and outstanding professional achievement. In 2023, the US Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission recognized him as “a leading expert in antitrust law and economics” and the IAM Strategy 300, a guide to the industry pioneers with “exceptional skill sets, as well as profound insights into the development, creation, and management of IP value,” named him to its World’s Leading IP Strategists 2023 list. In 2024, he was appointed to the consultative group advising the United Nations Secretary General’s High-Level Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence. In 2025, he received the IP Professor of the Year Award at the Global Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence & Technology Conclave & Awards.