Plaintiffs firm Abir Cohen Treyzon Salo and name partner Alexander Cohen have struck out in a bid to revive a lawsuit stemming from negative online reviews of the firm posted on Yelp, Avvo, Facebook, Ripoff Report, and Google.

The Second District Court of Appeal on Thursday upheld a trial court victory on an anti-SLAPP motion for Arta Lahiji, the daughter of former firm client Nahid Lahiji. The court found that Abir Cohen had “not advanced anything beyond speculation” that Arta Lahiji was the author of the posts at issue, which Nahid Lahiji informed the firm that she wrote.