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Recent SLAPP News
Ryan Metheny, attorney at the California Anti-SLAPP Project, recently wrote a piece on what you can do when someone issues a subpoena to your internet service provider seeking information about you.
“Finding out that someone has issued a subpoena to your internet service provider seeking information about you is scary. But...
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Laura Prather, PPP Board Member and partner at Sedgwick LLP, led the effort to enact an anti-SLAPP statute in Texas in 2011. Texas Governor Rick Perry signed the law, known as the Citizen Participation Act, last year.
“…Texas citizens are seeing a direct benefit from the passage of the law. Prather assembled a...
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“MSNBC host Rachel Maddow has hit back hard against a $50 million defamation lawsuit brought by heavy metal rocker-turned-radio host and conservative preacher Bradlee Dean. Maddow and NBC Universal are looking to punish Dean for bringing an allegedly meritless suit by filing an anti-SLAPP motion to end the case and force him...
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Eric Goldman, PPP Board Member and law professor at Santa Clara University School of Law, recently blogged about the first application of Texas’ new anti-SLAPP law to internet postings.
“American Heritage Capital, LP v. Dinah Gonzalez and Alan Gonzalez, No. DC-11-13741-C (Texas District Court April 13, 2012). The...
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Cable News Network Inc.’s decision to refrain from captioning videos on its website was not an act in furtherance of its protected free speech rights, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled March 23, denying CNN’s motion to dismiss an accessibility lawsuit under California’s...
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Seattle-based Avvo has a right to post its ratings of lawyers and doctors online.
That’s according to the U.S. District Court in Seattle, which ruled last week that the website, with its health and legal directory and question and answer forum, is protected under Washington state’s anti-SLAPP law.
Josh King, PPP Board member...
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