Washington State Court Refuses to Unmask Anonymous Online Reviewer
In a precedent-setting ruling, the Washington Court of Appeals in Thomson v. Doe refused to grant a motion to compel …
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Businesses rejoice but poster beware: Yelp ordered to identify anonymous reviewer
Many business have suffered the misery and frustration of a harshly negative, anonymous online review. That anonymity, critics argue, frees …
Employee Fairly Dismissed for Facebook Comments Posted Two Years Earlier
What happened? In Smith v British Waterways Board the Employment Appeal Tribunal (“EAT”) decided that an employee was fairly dismissed …
Texas Anti-SLAPP Law: The Expanding Scope of the Texas Citizen’s Participation Act – Part 5 (the conclusion)
To conclude the series, we look at one more opinion — Serafine v. Blunt, No. 03-12-00726-CV, 2015 WL 2061922 (Tex. …
Judge Orders Yelp to Identify Anonymous Negative Commenter
On September 15, a judge in Boston ruled that Yelp must reveal the identity of an anonymous commenter who wrote …
Google loses autocomplete defamation suit in Japan according to CNET
Technology has come a long way.
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