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Tuesday, 11 December 2012

Unhappy SLAPPing

I've worked on so-called "Happy Slapping" cases (where users of mobile phones film themselves assaulting other people and then broadcast the footage) but this is a different acronym:

 

http://www.emarketingandcommerce.com/aggregatedcontent/yelp-reviewer-gets-slapped-with-750k-lawsuit-and-order-to-alter-comments?goback=.gmr_1865660.gde_1865660_member_194612775

 Yelp Reviewer Gets SLAPPed With $750K Lawsuit and Order to Alter Comments

 

A woman is facing a $750,000 defamation lawsuit and has been ordered to alter a negative Yelp review of a home contractor after police found that her claims didn't add up. Dietz Development is claiming that Jane Perez's scathing review has cost them new customers and, on Wednesday, a judge ordered a preliminary injunction for her to edit the post. Yelp and legal critics are worried that Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP)-related lawsuits could chill free speech, but business owners say that legal intervention is necessary in an age when online reviews can make or break a company. 

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