Supporters of the Citizen Participation Act

The following are signatories to our letter in support, urging the U.S. Congress to adopt the Citizen Participation Act.

Organizations

Alliance for Justice

American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression

American Society of News Editors

Arizona Newspapers Association

Association of American Publishers

Bill of Rights Defense Committee

Association of Capitol Reporters and Editors (Capitolbeat)

Avvo, Inc.

California Newspaper Publishers Association

Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood

Center for Biological Diversity

Center for Competitive Politics

Center for Science in the Public Interest

Citizen Media Law Project at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society

Committee to Protect Bloggers

The Consumerist

Consumers for Auto Reliability & Safety (CARS)

Consumers Union

Creve Coeur Olivette-Chamber of Commerce

Defending Dissent

Delaware Press Association

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Entertainment Consumers Association

Essential Information

First Amendment Coalition

Food and Water Watch

Former Muslims United

Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas

Georgia First Amendment Foundation

Georgia Press Association

Government Accountability Project

HALT

Happy Mutants, LLC (Publisher of boingboing.net)

Hoosier State Press Association

Humane Society of the United States

Illinois Press Association

Jenkins & Kling, P.C. (St. Louis, Missouri)

Liberty Legal Project International, LLC

Maine Press Association

Marin Institute

Massachusetts Jobs with Justice

Media Alliance

Missouri Press Association

National Coalition for Freedom of Information

National Association of Consumer Advocates

National Lawyers Guild

Natural Resources Defense Council

Nebraska Press Association

Nevada Press Association

New Media Rights

North Carolina Press Association

OMB Watch

Online News Association

Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association

Pennsylvania Center for the First Amendment

Pennsylvania Freedom of Information Coalition

Pennsylvania Newspaper Association

PharmaGossip

Public Citizen

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility

Public Health Law and Policy

Public Participation Project

Reclaim Democracy

Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press

Society of Professional Journalists

Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP)

Texas Press Association

U.S. PIRG

Unvarnished, Inc.

Utah Press Association

Utility Consumers' Action Network

Wisconsin Newspaper Association

Yelp!

Individuals (Affiliations are for identification only)

Roger Bailey
Executive Director
North Dakota Newspaper Association

Brett Bezzant
Former Publisher, American Fork Citizen New Utah!
Sued for information he published to correct a paid advertisement in his paper.

James Bopp Jr.
General Counsel
James Madison Center for Free Speech
Bopp Coleson & Bostrom
Terre Haute, Indiana

Jerome Braun, Esq.
Farella, Braun + Martell, LLP
San Francisco, California
Author of two law review articles on anti-SLAPP law.

The Creve Coeur SLAPP Targets:
Ward 4 Council Members Laura Bryant & Jeanne Rhoades
Vi Smith, Former Executive Vice President of Creve Coeur-Olivette Chamber of Commerce
Terry Johnston & Keith Prokop, Creve Coeur Residents
Creve Coeur, Missouri

Doug Crews
Executive Director, Missouri Press Association
Columbia, Missouri

Professor Charles Davis
Executive Director, National Freedom of Information Coalition
Missouri School of Journalism
Columbia, Missouri

Col. Morris Davis (ret.)
Former U.S. Air Force Officer and Chief Prosecutor of Guantanamo Military Commissions

Carol Denney
Member Relations, Americans for Non-smokers’ Rights
Berkeley, California

Harmeet K. Dhillon, Esq.
Dhillon & Smith, LLP.
Member, Republican National Lawyers Association
Member, California Republican Lawyers Association
Board of Directors, ACLU of Northern California, 2002-2005
Chair, Civil Rights Committee, South Asian Bar Association of Northern California, 2007-2009

Professor Norman Dorsen
Stokes Professor of Law and Counselor to the
President, New York University
New York, New York

Jon B. Eisenberg, Esq.
Eisenberg and Hancock, LLP
San Francisco, California

Christopher Elliott
Consumer Advocate
SLAPPed for blogging about a travel agency

Peter Fox
Executive Director
Wisconsin Newspaper Association
Madison, Wisconsin

Professor Michael Froomkin
Professor of Law and Director of Faculty Development
University of Miami School of Law
Miami, Florida

Jeremy Gin
Founder of Sitejabber.com

Professor Eric Goldman
Associate Professor of Law
Director, High Tech Law Institute, Santa Clara University School of Law
Santa Clara, California
Check out Professor Goldman's Technology & Marketing Law Blog here.

Debbie Hagan
SLAPP Target (CMLP)
Dentist the Menace

Laurie Hieb
Executive Director
Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association

Linda Hull
Community Activist & Lawsuit Target
Los Alamos, New Mexico

Steve Kling, Esq.
Jenkins & Kling, LLC
St. Louis, Missouri

Professor Lawrence Lessig
Director, Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics
Professor of Law
Harvard Law School
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Professor Daniel Mandelker
Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law
Author, Planning and Control of Land Development; Land Use Law. Co-author, Federal Land Use Law and Property Law and the Public Interest
St. Louis, Missouri

Kathi Mills
Animal Welfare Activist & SLAPP Survivor
Moderator, SLAPP Victims' Support Group

Michael A. Pezza, Jr., Esq.
Law Office of Michael A. Pezza, Jr.
Boston, Massachusetts

Daniel Pipes
Taube Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution
Director, Middle East Forum

Professor George Pring
Professor of Law at the University of Denver Sturm College
Denver, Colorado
Co-Author of seminal work SLAPPs: Getting Sued for Speaking Out. Coined the term SLAPP

Michelle Rea
Executive Director
New York Press Association

Michael Reedy, Esq.
McManis Faulkner, LLP
San Jose, California

Professor Robert D. Richards
Distinguished Professor of Journalism and Law at Penn State University
University Park, Pennsylvania

Jeremy Rosen
Partner, Horvitz and Levy, LLP
Advisory Board Chair, The Federalist Society - Los Angeles Chapter
Counsel in the following anti-SLAPP cases before the California Supreme Court:
In re Episcopal Church Cases (2009) 45 Cal.4th 467
Kibler v. Northern Inyo County Local Hospital District (2006) 39 Cal.4th 192
Varian Medical Systems v. Delfino (2005) 35 Cal.4th 180

Peter Scheer
Executive Director
First Amendment Coalition
San Rafael, California

Gloria Wolk MSW
Consumer Advocate, Author, Consultant
Bialkin Books
SLAPPed in three states for work on life insurance viatical settlements