Theane Evangelis

Theane Evangelis is a litigation partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, where she co-chairs the firm's litigation practice group and has handled prominent appellate and class-action matters. She argued the appeal for Reddit, Inc. as defendant-appellee in Does 1-6 v. Reddit before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the case in which pseudonymous plaintiffs sought to hold Reddit liable under FOSTA for user-posted child sexual abuse material. Her name appears as arguing counsel in the court's 2022 opinion, which affirmed dismissal of the suit on the ground that Section 230, as narrowed by FOSTA, barred the claims absent allegations that Reddit knowingly benefited from a trafficking venture. She has argued numerous appeals on platform-liability and constitutional questions, and the Reddit case is among the notable technology-sector matters in which she has represented a major online platform.