Straub v. Hair Transplant Network [1]

Dr. Paul Straub filed a defamation lawsuit against Media Visions Inc., the company behind HairTransplantNetwork.com, on the grounds that he was removed from the website's recommended doctors list and that critical comments were posted on the website's forum.

HairTransplantNetwork.com operates two affiliate websites, RegrowHair.com, which serves as its Q&A Blog, and Hair-Restoration-Info.com, which serves as a forum for patients to discuss their experiences. HairTransplantNetwork.com suspended its recommendation of Dr. Straub in the summer of 2007. Dr. Straub requested that his recommendation be reinstated and that any critical forum posts be deleted.

When HairTransplantNetwork refused to take down the forum posts and to reinstate his recommendation, Dr. Straub filed a lawsuit. Dr. Straub voluntarily dismissed the case eight months later, in April 2009.