A Virginia court has lifted an injunction placed against a woman who left a negative review on Yelp and Angie's List of a contractor who had done some work on her home recently. The decision was pivotal because the previous decision had effectively censored Jane Perez's negative review of contractor Christopher Dietz without investigating if her claims were true or not.

The previous ruling stated that Perez had to remove wording from the review that mentioned missing jewelry, and she was to "re-characterize" the dispute between the two over non payment. An appeal by Public Citizen and the American Civil Liberties Union led to the court determining just two days later that "the preliminary injunction was not justified and that the respondents have an adequate remedy at law."

"It shouldn't be easy to take down speech that you don't like," said Paul Alan Levy, an attorney for Public Citizen. "You can't get injunction against defamation. If it's really defamation, you get damages."