Hassell v. Bird

Opinion

RUVOLO, P. J.—

I

INTRODUCTION

Respondents Dawn Hassell and the Hassell Law Group (Hassell) 1 obtained a judgment holding defendant Ava Bird liable for defamation and requiring her to remove defamatory reviews she posted about Hassell on Yelp.com, a Web site owned by appellant Yelp, Inc. (Yelp). The judgment also contains an order requiring Yelp to remove Bird’s defamatory reviews from its Web site (the removal order). Yelp, who was not a party in the defamation action, filed a motion to vacate the judgment which the trial court denied.

On appeal, the parties raise numerous issues relating…