28 Dec: Mediation Message No. 100

MICHAEL D. MARCUS’S MEDIATION MESSAGE NO. 100 ANTI-SLAPP MOTION IS “YELPED” Demetriades v. Yelp, Inc. (2014) 228 Cal.App.4th 294 is an interesting read because it applies the anti-SLAPP commercial speech exemption to Yelp litigation. Yelp, a website that has fundamentally changed the way buyers and sellers meet and interact in the marketplace, is a phenomenon: as of September 2012, users had posted approximately 33 million reviews to its website and it had 84 million monthly…