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· 9/2/2014

Boris Levitt v. Yelp! Inc.

Citations

  • 765 F.3d 1123
  • 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 17079
  • 2014 WL 4290615

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • noting that a “claim of reputational harm” must be connected with “a specific allegation of wrongful conduct”
  • finding that while Section 230(c)(2) has a good-faith 19 requirement, (c)(1) has no such requirement
  • noting that, after the 4 Supreme Court’s decisions in Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662 (2009), and Bell Atlantic Corp. v. 5 Twombly, 550 U.S. 544 (2007
  • reviewing case law reading “Enmons as holding only that the use of violence to secure legitimate collective bargaining objectives is beyond the reach of the Hobbs Act”
  • stating that evaluating pleadings 5 involves a “two-step process”
  • applying United States v. Sturm , 870 F.2d 769 , 771-72 (1st Cir. 1989), and finding Hobbs Act extortion would be proved if defendant made wrongful threats of economic injury

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Judges: Paez, Berzon, Tallman

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