single317dad
Senior Member
What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? CA
This is starting to shape up like Amy's Baking Co. all over again.
http://www.businessinsider.com/links-sues-anonymous-yelp-reviewer-for-1-million-per-negative-post-2015-6
Link Co was gaining a very bad reputation on online review sites, so they sued the authors of the reviews. Yelp has since hidden the reviews in question.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/269357564/Link-Corporation-Lawsuit
However, during a reddit discussion of the lawsuit, a man purporting to be the owner of Link made a few questionable comments of his own, and screenshots of even more combative behavior on the now-hidden Yelp comments have surfaced.
http://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/3apo2d/palo_alto_contractor_sues_8_yelp_users_over/?sort=new
This kind of defamation suit has existed for a long time: party A makes derogatory public statements about party B, B sues A, when all the while B had been defaming A as well. Now we just get to watch them play out in a very public fashion, with lots of written proof, where it used to be quietly contained to the neighborhood.
This is starting to shape up like Amy's Baking Co. all over again.
http://www.businessinsider.com/links-sues-anonymous-yelp-reviewer-for-1-million-per-negative-post-2015-6
Link Co was gaining a very bad reputation on online review sites, so they sued the authors of the reviews. Yelp has since hidden the reviews in question.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/269357564/Link-Corporation-Lawsuit
However, during a reddit discussion of the lawsuit, a man purporting to be the owner of Link made a few questionable comments of his own, and screenshots of even more combative behavior on the now-hidden Yelp comments have surfaced.
http://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/3apo2d/palo_alto_contractor_sues_8_yelp_users_over/?sort=new
This kind of defamation suit has existed for a long time: party A makes derogatory public statements about party B, B sues A, when all the while B had been defaming A as well. Now we just get to watch them play out in a very public fashion, with lots of written proof, where it used to be quietly contained to the neighborhood.