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YELP, INC. v. HADEED CARPET CLEANING, INC.

Record No. 140242.

770 S.E.2d 440 (2015)

YELP, INC. v. HADEED CARPET CLEANING, INC.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

April 16, 2015.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul Alan Levy (Scott Michelman; Raymond D. Battocchi; Public Citizen Litigation Group, on briefs), for appellant.

Raighne C. Delaney (James Bruce Davis; Rachelle E. Hill; Zachary G. Williams; Bean, Kinney & Korman, Arlington, on briefs), for appellee.

Automattic, Inc., Facebook, Inc., Google Inc., Medium, Pinterest, TripAdvisor LLC, and Twitter, Inc. (Eric D. Miller; John K. Roche, Perkins Coie, on briefs), Electronic Frontier Foundation (Matthew J. Erausquin; Andrew Crocker; Consumer Litigation Associates, on brief), Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and 16 Others (Bruce D. Brown; Kevin M. Goldberg; Fletcher, Heald & Hildreth, on brief), Three Yelp Reviewers Whose Identities Appellee Seeks to Obtain (Jay Ward Brown; Shaina Jones Ward; Matthew E. Kelley; Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz, on brief), in support of amici curiae appellant.

Present: LEMONS, C.J., GOODWYN, MILLETTE, MIMS, McCLANAHAN, and POWELL, JJ., and KOONTZ, S.J.

Yelp, Inc. ("Yelp"), appeals from the judgment of the Court of Appeals affirming the order of the Circuit Court of the City of Alexandria holding Yelp in civil contempt for failing to comply with a non-party subpoena duces tecum served upon it by Hadeed Carpet Cleaning, Inc. ("Hadeed"). The subpoena duces...

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