{"id":41575,"date":"2021-10-27T10:00:05","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T17:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=41575"},"modified":"2021-10-27T16:01:28","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T23:01:28","slug":"heading-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=41575","title":{"rendered":"HEADING WEST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge in Florida on Tuesday said former President Trump\u2019s legal effort to have his Twitter account restored must be heard in California.<\/p>\n<p>Miami-based U.S. District Judge Robert Scola Jr.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/lnhqsfzphmmrlflmrdjhhrqqhzrcmzmyynhpfwcmgknhhd_xcgdrrhvhtdbhrhjvsdg.html?a=&amp;b=43793\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/lnhqsfzphmmrlflmrdjhhrqqhzrcmzmyynhpfwcmgknhhd_xcgdrrhvhtdbhrhjvsdg.html?a%3D%26b%3D43793&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1635459311162000&amp;usg=AFQjCNElh53DBB4fwWy5JK37_Y8n9ssBsA\">ruled<\/a>\u00a0that Trump agreed to be bound by Twitter\u2019s terms of service in 2009 when he created his @realdonaldtrump handle while he was a private citizen. Those terms include a so-called forum selection clause requiring that suits against the San Francisco-based company be brought to federal court in Northern California.<\/p>\n<p>Scola, an Obama appointee, rejected Trump\u2019s claim that his position as a sitting president should exempt him from that requirement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump\u2019s former status as the President of the United States does not preclude the application of the forum selection clause,\u201d Scola wrote in a 13-page ruling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge in Florida on&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41576,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41575\/revisions\/41576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}