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Litigation

Oct. 29, 2011

Judge dismisses suit against Yelp

A federal judge has thrown out a class action against the customer review website Yelp Inc., finding that the company is immune from claims that it manipulated reviews.


By Amy Yarbrough


Daily Journal Staff Writer


A federal judge has thrown out a class action against the customer review website Yelp Inc., finding that the company is immune from claims that it manipulated reviews.


Yelp, which publishes patrons' reviews of restaurants, stores and other businesses, was accused of publishing negative reviews of businesses that it wrote in-house, or manipulating outside reviews to harm businesses that would not...

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