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Sept 28 (Reuters) - Yelp Inc (YELP.N) is asking a federal court to stop Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton from suing it over notices telling its users that crisis pregnancy centers do not provide abortions or referrals for abortions...
In a complaint filed on Wednesday in federal court in San Francisco, the online business review site operator said Paxton, a Republican, told it last week that he intended to bring a lawsuit under Texas's unfair business practices law..
The company said in the complaint that it posted the notices to prevent users from being misled by crisis pregnancy centers that deliberately targeted women seeking abortions...
In February, in response to a complaint by Paxton, the company changed the notices to state that crisis pregnancy centers "do not offer abortions or referrals to abortion providers.".
According to Wednesday's lawsuit, Paxton nonetheless informed Yelp on Sept. 22 that he intended to sue the company for posting misleading notices in violation of the state's law on unfair business practice, and seeking up to $10,000 per violation...
