Information and Commentary about SLAPPs
1. The Citizen Media Law Project provides excellent resources on a variety of legal topics. See its SLAPP page for more information on state anti-SLAPP laws.
2. The California Anti-SLAPP Project also provides information on state anti-SLAPP law, along with a survival guide for SLAPP defendants.
3. Cyberslapp.org is dedicated to fighting SLAPPs that occur as a result of speech conducted over the Internet. See the site for detailed information and resources.
4. The Center for Media and Democracy PR Watch's SLAPP Happy: Corporations that Sue to Shut You Up page is a good introduction to SLAPPs.
5. The Newsroom Law Blog provides information on the import of SLAPP legislation for the press, publishers and broadcasters.
6. The The First Amendment Project Anti-SLAPP Resource Center provides information on dealing with SLAPPs.
7. This short article, written by Professor Donella Meadows about ten years ago, succinctly explains SLAPPs, and the chilling effect such suits have on important communication.
8. The Electronic Frontier Foundation works at the intersection of technology and civil liberties, defending free speech, privacy, innovation, and consumer rights.
9. The Media Law Resource Center has compiled this excellent list of lawsuits brought on the basis of Internet speech.
Information about Congress
1. Project Vote Smart provides a summary of biographical information on your representatives in Congress, along with voting records and interest group ratings.
2. On the Issues provides detailed information on each member's voting record, including full quotes, interest group ratings and background information.
Information about the Courts
1. Courthouse News Service provides daily comprehensive reports on new appellate rulings, new legislation and new civil cases from the federal and state courts with the most prolific and weighty litigation.
First Amendment Resources
1. The California First Amendment Coalition provides up to date commentary on First Amendment happenings.
2. The American Civil Liberties Union also provides information, in addition to resources on litigating First Amendment claims.
3. Chilling Effects Clearinghouse, a collaboration of a number of First Amendment-focused organizations, informs readers of their First Amendment rights in the context of intellectual property law.
4. The Berkman Center for Internet and Technology at Harvard University focuses on the development, dynamics, norms, and standards of cyberspace.
5. The Stanford Center for Internet and Society provides information about the intersection of law and technology, with a focus on First Amendment issues.
6. The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press provides First Amendment news as related to a free and functioning press.
7. The Center for Democracy and Technology is dedicated to keeping the internet open, innovative and free, and provides information on the intersection of the First Amendment with a host of internet issues.
8. FoodSpeak, a project of the Center for Science in the Public Interest and a coalition of three dozen public interest organizations, highlights the problem of SLAPPs against those who speak out on issues of food safety.
9. Attorney Steven P. Aggergaard's Media Law in Minnesota blog has this great question-and-answer in lay terms about the First Amendment.
10. The News Room Law Blog has interesting analysis of SLAPPs, along with a lot of information about many legal issues affecting the media.
SLAPP Scholarship & Practice
1. Anti-SLAPP Law Make Benefit for Glorious Entertainment Industry of America, by Jonathan Segal.
2. California's Anti-SLAPP Legislation: A Summary of its Operation and Scope, by Kathryn Tate, 33 LOY L.A. L. REV. 801 (2000).
3. SLAPPing Around the First Amendment: An Analysis of Oklahoma’s Anti-SLAPP Statute and Its Implications on the Right to Petition, by Laura Long, 60 OK. L. REV. 421 (2007).
4. Chad Baruch, Defending Consumers from Retaliatory Litigation: SLAPPed Around, Journal of Texas Consumer Law.
5. Sarah Staveley-O'Carroll, Libel Tourism Laws: Spoiling the Holiday and Saving the First Amendment?, 4 NYU J.L. & Liberty 252 (2009). Reviews the New York libel tourism legislation, and recommends that federal legislation should model a remedy after state anti-SLAPP statutes to allow defendants to recover damages from libel tourists who file spurious claims abroad with the purpose of chilling speech. "Such legislation, which singles out and punishes libel tourists, would deter future harassment of American authors and publishers and provide a remedy for those with assets subject to enforcement abroad."
6. Paul Wilson, Of Sexy Phone Calls and Well-Aimed Golf Balls: Anti-SLAPP Statutes in Recent Land-Use Damages Litigation,36 Urban Lawyer 375 (2004).