Judith Swartz was quoted in an article for Inc. Magazine "A 1-Star Google Review Landed Her in Court. The Company Suing Her Says She Wasn’t a Customer"
08/31/2026Our litigation counsel Judith Swartz was quoted in an article for Inc. Magazine about how Starr Manufacturing, a Vienna, Ohio-based industrial equipment manufacturer, filed a lawsuit against Columbus resident Julie Watson in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court, alleging the statements she made about its manufacturing work in a Google review posted earlier this year were false. "To be defamatory, a review has to assert or cleary imply a false objectively verifiable fact, such as a specific fabricated event."