The Attorneys General were back at it again in 2015, when 40 Attorneys General signed in support of an Amici Curiae (friend of the court) brief in favor of Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood’s case against Google. The case, Google, Inc. v. Jim Hood, is a suit filed against Hood by Google for issuing a subpoena based on allegations that Google is responsible for the ability to find copyrighted materials through their internet search engine. Google stated, “The Attorney General may prefer a pre-filtered Internet—but the Constitution and Congress have denied him the authority to mandate it.” A federal judge blocked the subpoena, an action which eventually led to a dismissal agreement between Hood and Google.
In 2016, Yelp fought a court ruling in California that required the company to remove negative reviews after a law firm sued the company. Critics of the ruling worried that it would set a precedent of holding internet review services liable for customer reviews. Others worried that it would result in businesses pursuing legal action against the reviewers themselves.
Originally posted 2017-01-06 15:53:13.
