Jerk.com put up profiles of individuals and businesses. ABA News says: ‘Legal Times visited the website and noted headlines deeming the Pillsbury law firm and Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton to be jerks, supposedly for providing bad or wrong advice.’ But the Federal Trade Commission is now taking a deceptive conduct suit against the firm. It says that Jerk.com offered businesses and consumers a US$30 fee which they believed would enable them to removed the negative content. However, the Commission said: ‘In truth and in fact in numerous instances, consumers who subscribed to Jerk by paying for a standard membership received nothing in return for their payment.’ Source: ABA
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