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In what jurisdiction is your wife's business? If the pattern is that predictable, I'm curious if you could gather enough data to successfully sue Yelp for defa

In what jurisdiction is your wife's business? If the pattern is that predictable, I'm curious if you could gather enough data to successfully sue Yelp for defamation?

dfxm12 6y ago
You don't just need data to sue. You need a lawyer. Lawyers cost money. Yelp has more money than the parent poster. Yelp would not lose such a case.
- proverbialbunny 6y ago
  >Yelp would not lose such a case. You don't know that. No one knows that. Having money doesn't magically mean automatically winning court battles.
  - whoisburbansky 6y ago
    No but it does mean a higher chance that the legal battle ends up being protracted enough that the smaller party is forced to abandon their case because they can't afford legal fees anymore. Saying that having more money doesn't magically win court battles ignores the ways in which having deeper pockets lets you bog the other side down until they literally can't afford to keep fighting.
  - dfxm12 6y ago
    It's not magic. Yelp has already won at least one similar case [0]. And like a sibling commenter said, without enough money, you won't even get to court. 0 - http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2014/09/02/11-17676.pdf http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2014/09/02/11...
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  - ponker 6y ago
    If one player has millions and the other has billions, the poorer party can prevail. If one player has thousands and the other has millions, the larger player can just jam up the legal processes to make it virtually impossible to hold them to account.
stronglikedan 6y ago
They've been engaged in this deplorable practice for years, so I would think many have tried, and failed, to sue over it.
evo_9 6y ago
It’s a nail and wax salon, probably an easy target as they are typically owned by Asian Americans (which is our case). It’s easy to scare someone with heavy rhetoric when English is their second language.
evo_9 6y ago
Maybe a better approach to this problem than a lawsuit or a direct competitor to Yelp is a website for business to log/track Yelps bullshit. A sort of class-action lawsuit gathering point. Aka, something like 'YelpEvidence.com' where businesses can catalog this routine behavior, and gather the kind of information a law firm could actual use. It might be enough of to force Yelp to change their ways.

In what jurisdiction is your wife's business? If the pattern is that predictable, I'm curious if you could gather enough data to successfully sue Yelp for defamation?

dfxm12 6y ago

You don't just need data to sue. You need a lawyer. Lawyers cost money. Yelp has more money than the parent poster. Yelp would not lose such a case.

proverbialbunny 6y ago
>Yelp would not lose such a case. You don't know that. No one knows that. Having money doesn't magically mean automatically winning court battles.
- whoisburbansky 6y ago
  No but it does mean a higher chance that the legal battle ends up being protracted enough that the smaller party is forced to abandon their case because they can't afford legal fees anymore. Saying that having more money doesn't magically win court battles ignores the ways in which having deeper pockets lets you bog the other side down until they literally can't afford to keep fighting.
- dfxm12 6y ago
  It's not magic. Yelp has already won at least one similar case [0]. And like a sibling commenter said, without enough money, you won't even get to court. 0 - http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2014/09/02/11-17676.pdf http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2014/09/02/11...
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- ponker 6y ago
  If one player has millions and the other has billions, the poorer party can prevail. If one player has thousands and the other has millions, the larger player can just jam up the legal processes to make it virtually impossible to hold them to account.

stronglikedan 6y ago

They've been engaged in this deplorable practice for years, so I would think many have tried, and failed, to sue over it.

evo_9 6y ago

It’s a nail and wax salon, probably an easy target as they are typically owned by Asian Americans (which is our case). It’s easy to scare someone with heavy rhetoric when English is their second language.

evo_9 6y ago

Maybe a better approach to this problem than a lawsuit or a direct competitor to Yelp is a website for business to log/track Yelps bullshit. A sort of class-action lawsuit gathering point. Aka, something like 'YelpEvidence.com' where businesses can catalog this routine behavior, and gather the kind of information a law firm could actual use. It might be enough of to force Yelp to change their ways.