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According to court reports, AVVO, the lawyer rating website, filed a motion last week to vacate an illegal injunction that was filed by the Kelly Warner Law Firm that was intended to censor the media.

As a background to the story, let's go back to 2013 when Arizona Cardinals Cheerleader Megan Welter got into a fight with her boyfriend over a text message.  The fight ended with Welter calling the police and reporting her boyfriend for domestic violence.  She claimed that her boyfriend "smashed [her] head into the tile" and put her in a "choke hold with his legs," she told the 911 dispatcher.

When the police arrived on the scene, they discovered that Welter had lied about the incident.   Apparently Welter's then boyfriend, Ryan McMahon, showed a video on his cell phone verifying that it was Welter who had attacked him. She was subsequently arrested and charged with assault.

The arrest came just days after Welter and her team, the Cardinals, kicked off a massive PR campaign to promote the positive story about her. Welter wasn't just a beautiful woman—she was an Iraq war veteran who led troops in a signal unit of the US Army.

From Sports Illustrated to local Arizona TV stations, several feel-good stories were hailing Welter as an all-American character. The Cardinals produced a promotional video all about Welter that ran on NFL.com.

Days later, learning of her arrest, many of the same news outlets ran decidedly less positive coverage. "So much for Wednesday's Hot Clicks feel-good story of the day," wrote a Sports Illustrated blogger. ABC's Good Morning America ran a report featuring cell-phone video of Welter attacking her boyfriend, as well as footage from body cameras worn by officers of the Scottsdale Police Department.

Seemingly overnight Megan Welter's reputation was ruined online, with the first 3 pages for Google searches of "Megan Welter" returning results of her arrest.

Enter "The Reputation Fixers" - AKA The Kelly Warner Law Firm

Humiliated by her conduct that was caught on video, Megan Welter turned to the self-promoted "Reputation Fixers" at The Kelly Warner Law Firm for help.

The Kelly Warner Law Firm had gained a reputation for "removing" webpages from Google for clients accused of running scams, assaulting people, and involved in criminal activities:

“WE KNOW HOW TO GET DISPARAGING, NEGATIVE COMMENTS REMOVED FROM THE WEB – QUICKLY.” – DANIEL WARNER & AARON KELLY

Jumping into action, the Kelly Warner Law Firm devised a plan that would permanently remove all of the negative articles about Megan Welter from Google searches.   The only problem with the plan was that it was illegal and would violate multiple Federal and State Laws.