The tide is turning against posters of defamatory screeds on online review websites, at least in the California appellate courts.
For the second time in as many months, an appellate panel has ruled against posters to Yelp and similar sites. The decisions cut against the grain of some previous appellate opinions which held that readers expect posts on Internet message boards to play "fast and loose" with the truth, setting a high bar to defamation.
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