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(Reuters) -Yelp can pursue a lawsuit accusing a reputation management company of fraudulently advertising its ability to remove "bad" reviews from the business review website. In a decision late ...
Most people don’t think twice before posting a negative review on Yelp, but a recent lawsuit filed in Texas might make you start. Woman gets sued for leaving a one-star Yelp review Skip to main ...
In its lawsuit, Footprints Floors estimated White's Yelp review cost the company 167 projects and $625,000 in revenue between Jan. 1 and Aug. 1, 2014. Bad Yelp review gets couple sued Skip to main ...
Hassell v. Bird was a case heard within the California court system related to a court-ordered removal of a defamatory user review of a law firm from the Yelp website. The case, first heard in the California Court of Appeals, First District, Division Four, unanimously ruled in favor of the law firm, ordering Yelp to remove the review in 2016.
The Class Action lawsuit, [15] being led by investor Joseph Curry, focuses on Yelp's "first-hand" reviews. The suit says Yelp required businesses "to pay to suppress negative reviews," and then lied about the practice.
Many business owners have said that Yelp salespeople have offered to remove or suppress negative reviews if they purchase advertising. [95] [148] Others report seeing negative reviews featured prominently and positive reviews buried, and then soon afterwards, they would receive calls from Yelp attempting to sell paid advertising. [149]
The court decided 2-1 that a Yelp review calling the Johnson County plastic surgeon a “monster” who “ruins lives” didn’t constitute defamation.
In November 2012, Casey Movers, a Boston moving company, threatened to sue a woman in Hingham District Court for libel in response to a negative Yelp review. The woman's husband wrote a blog post about the situation, which was then picked up by Techdirt [73] and Consumerist. [74]