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Another Court Shuts the Door on “Yelp Law” Drive-By Lawsuits–Arterberry v. Peet’s
['Eric Goldman']
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
(a)(2) targets businesses’ efforts to enforce those TOS provisions.
A small team of plaintiff lawyers have been cruising the Internet, looking for TOS provisions that they claim are consumer review restrictions, and then asserting (a)(1) violations for those TOS provisions hoping for payoffs.
These are ill-advised TOS provisions that should be rewritten, but they are also clearly not meant to restrict consumers’ abilities to post reviews.]
Now, a week later, a different California Appeals Court panel reaches the same conclusion in a precedential opinion, Arterberry v. Peet’s.
Even without a legitimate private right of action, plaintiffs’ lawyers have used (a)(1) to cause chaos in court and extract undeserved concessions.