Fewer Remedies In Calif. For Targets Of Defamatory Reviews

By Pooja Nair (July 13, 2018, 4:41 PM EDT) -- On July 2, 2018, the California Supreme Court ruled in a 4-3 decision in Dawn L. Hassell et al. v. Ava Bird that Yelp could not be ordered to remove negative reviews that were found to be defamatory. Three justices in the majority found that the Communications Decency Act of 1996 immunized Yelp from any form of liability for user-generated online content, including being subject to a court order for injunctive relief. However, a fourth justice made the same decision on narrower due process grounds, leaving significant uncertainty as to the extent of immunity under the CDA....

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