Yelp Inc. must face claims from the state of Texas over disclaimers the business review website tagged to clinics that oppose abortion.<\/p>\n
A statewide appeals court rejected Yelp\u2019s position that it can\u2019t be sued in Texas since the disclaimers were also assigned to crisis pregnancy centers in other states.<\/p>\n
Accepting that theory of jurisdiction \u201cwould create perverse incentives, encouraging actors to commit harms everywhere to avoid being\u201d sued in any jurisdiction\u201d Court of Appeals, Fifteenth District Justice April Farris said in the opinion<\/a> Thursday.<\/p>\n The unanimous decision from the all-Republican court returns Texas\u2019 lawsuit to a district court that originally …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yelp Inc. must face claims from the state of Texas over disclaimers the business review website tagged to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4970,8016,8017,8018,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-8455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-abortion","tag-health-status-discrimination","tag-notice","tag-registering-to-do-business","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}