California High Court: Yelp Can’t Be Ordered To Remove Defamatory Reviews

Mealey's (July 5, 2018, 1:21 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A divided California Supreme Court on July 2 ruled that the Communications Decency Act (CDA) prevents consumer review website operator Yelp Inc. from being compelled to take down reviews a court deemed defamatory, because doing so would treat Yelp as the publisher or speaker of the third-party content (Dawn L. Hassell, et al. v. Ava Bird, et al., No. S235968, Calif. Sup., 2018 Cal. LEXIS 4704)....