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WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – “Former Clinton adviser Lanny Davis lost the latest round in the ongoing legal battle he is waging with 3M.
The company’s defamation claims against Davis will go forward. The U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., ruled Thursday against the motion to dismiss by Davis.
3M’s law...
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Jeremy Rosen, partner at Horvitz & Levy LLP and Vice President of the Board of Directors at PPP, was quoted in an article discussing a case in which a lawyer used a YouTube video to solicit plaintiffs for a class action lawsuit against the maker of a dietary supplement.
“It’s the medium, not the message, that did...
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An activist in Twiggs County, Georgia, says that a lawsuit filed against him by a landfill company is a SLAPP. His attorneys say that the activist was rightfully working to protest the environmental impact of a landfill expansion, while the company claims that the activist falsely defamed them.
“In a lawsuit between a big...
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Ryan Metheny, an attorney at the California Anti-SLAPP Project, recently wrote a legal analysis of the potential SLAPP against Jay Leno and NBC.
“Last week, Jay Leno joked on his television show that the Golden Temple of Armritsar in India, a holy site to the Sikh religion, was the summer...
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In what looks like a potential SLAPP, Jay Leno and NBC are being sued after he made a joke involving Mitt Romney and the Sikh holy shrine temple.
“Jay Leno thought he was poking gentle fun at the lifestyles of rich and famous Republican presidential candidates — Mitt Romney in particular. But last Thursday when Leno’s...
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The Illinois Supreme Court recently narrowed the scope of the state’s anti-SLAPP law in Sandholm v. Kuecker.
In the case, a high school coach sued for defamation against the defendants after they began “a campaign to oust him as the head basketball coach. In the process of their campaign, the Plaintiff alleged that the...
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