Trump Fails to Keep Lawsuit to Get Back on Twitter in Florida

Erik Larson, Bloomberg News

U.S. President Donald Trump reacts as he departs the Congress hall following his special address on the opening day of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020. World leaders, influential executives, bankers and policy makers attend the 50th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos from Jan. 21 - 24. , Bloomberg

(Bloomberg) -- Twitter Inc.‘s legal battle to keep Donald Trump off the social media platform for inciting the Jan. 6 Capitol riot is being moved from Florida to a federal court in California over the former president’s objections.

U.S. District Judge Robert N. Scola in Miami on Tuesday granted Twitter’s request to transfer the case, citing the San Francisco-based company’s user terms that require legal disputes to be handled on its home turf in Northern California.

Scola rejected Trump’s claim that Twitter’s terms of service didn’t apply to him when he was president. Another federal judge in Florida granted a similar request on Oct. 6 from Google’s YouTube video-sharing service, which Trump also sued for suspending his account.

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