Lawsuit Details: https://sleepopolis.com/blog/casper-sues-sleepopolis-with-fe...
Casper Mattress Review: https://sleepopolis.com/mattress-reviews/casper-mattress-rev...
Jesus Christ that's awful.
Also, from the initial complaint:
> 2. In early 2014, Casper launched as an innovative new sleep start-up, radically disrupting the traditional mattress industry with one mattress sold directly to consumers online with a risk free in-home trial—eliminating mattress stores and their inflated prices. Casper’s unique approach sought to create a universally comfortable product with a sleek design delivered straight to your door without the need for commission-driven salespeople working in retail Case 1:16-cv-03223 Document 1 Filed 04/29/16 Page 1 of 20 stores. Instead, Casper offers its mattresses directly to consumers via its e-commerce website. Casper immediately struck a chord with consumers, generating $1 million in sales within its first month
That might be new for the US, but the UK had Ergoflex selling memory foam mattresses direct to consumers in 2006. They only have one product, but in different sizes.
https://sleepopolis.com/mattress-reviews/tuft-and-needle-vs-...
You shouldn't be able to sue someone for writing a review, this reeks of violating one's First Amendment rights.
I have no idea about the basis or any of the details but it's not just "wrote review, got sued".
https://web.archive.org/web/20160427113129/http://sleepopoli...
So, that might be a relevant complaint.
I'm not sure why, now the site has the needed disclosures, it's okay for Casper to keep up the lawsuit.
The linked review in question even strongly favors the Casper over the competing Tuft & Needle mattress.
You can sue anyone for anything.
You've misunderstood both my post and the post I was replying to. I know what they said, and I agree that the pay-to-play American legal system needs to be reworked. They were talking about stopping a specific kind of lawsuit, not all lawsuits that you'd consider "censorship".
From what I've read of Sleepopolis, might basically be an SEO-orientated affiliate scam with fabricated/misattributed reviews. Or it might be completely above board.
The Purple lawsuit against HonestMattressReviews was interesting, where it looks like Purple were actually in the right, and the guy was actually a shill for GhostBed. May or may not be the case, afaik it's still at trial.