A California dentist, who sued Yelp and reviewers for a bad review concerning a filling the dentist put into the mouth of the reviewers’ six-year-old son, must pay court costs according to a ruling in district court.
A California appellate court ruled last year that Yelp could not be held for defamation because the post was protected under the state’s anti-SLAPP law that protects public discussion of important issues, in this case the presence of mercury in fillings. -db
From MediaPost, May 16, 2011, by Wendy Davis.