The following are signatories to our letter in support, urging the U.S. Congress to adopt the Citizen Participation Act.
Organizations
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)
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
Consumers for Auto Reliability & Safety (CARS)
Creve Coeur Olivette-Chamber of Commerce
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Entertainment Consumers Association
Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas
Georgia First Amendment Foundation
Government Accountability Project
Happy Mutants, LLC (Publisher of boingboing.net)
Hoosier State Press Association
Humane Society of the United States
Jenkins & Kling, P.C. (St. Louis, Missouri)
Liberty Legal Project International, LLC
Massachusetts Jobs with Justice National Coalition for Freedom of Information National Association of Consumer Advocates Natural Resources Defense Council North Carolina Press Association Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association Pennsylvania Center for the First Amendment Pennsylvania Freedom of Information Coalition Pennsylvania Newspaper Association Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press Society of Professional Journalists Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) Unvarnished, Inc. Utility Consumers' Action Network Wisconsin Newspaper Association Individuals (Affiliations are for identification only) Roger Bailey Brett Bezzant James Bopp Jr. Jerome Braun, Esq. The Creve Coeur SLAPP Targets: Doug Crews Professor Charles Davis Col. Morris Davis (ret.) Carol Denney Harmeet K. Dhillon, Esq. Professor Norman Dorsen Jon B. Eisenberg, Esq. Christopher Elliott Peter Fox Professor Michael Froomkin Jeremy Gin Professor Eric Goldman Debbie Hagan Laurie Hieb Linda Hull Steve Kling, Esq. Professor Lawrence Lessig Professor Daniel Mandelker Kathi Mills Michael A. Pezza, Jr., Esq. Daniel Pipes Professor George Pring Michelle Rea Michael Reedy, Esq. Professor Robert D. Richards Jeremy Rosen Peter Scheer Gloria Wolk MSW
Executive Director
North Dakota Newspaper Association
Former Publisher, American Fork Citizen New Utah!
Sued for information he published to correct a paid advertisement in his paper.
General Counsel
James Madison Center for Free Speech
Bopp Coleson & Bostrom
Terre Haute, Indiana
Farella, Braun + Martell, LLP
San Francisco, California
Author of two law review articles on anti-SLAPP law.
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
Executive Director, Missouri Press Association
Columbia, Missouri
Executive Director, National Freedom of Information Coalition
Missouri School of Journalism
Columbia, Missouri
Former U.S. Air Force Officer and Chief Prosecutor of Guantanamo Military Commissions
Member Relations, Americans for Non-smokers’ Rights
Berkeley, California
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
Stokes Professor of Law and Counselor to the
President, New York University
New York, New York
Eisenberg and Hancock, LLP
San Francisco, California
Consumer Advocate
SLAPPed for blogging about a travel agency
Executive Director
Wisconsin Newspaper Association
Madison, Wisconsin
Professor of Law and Director of Faculty Development
University of Miami School of Law
Miami, Florida
Founder of Sitejabber.com
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.
SLAPP Target (CMLP)
Dentist the Menace
Executive Director
Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association
Community Activist & Lawsuit Target
Los Alamos, New Mexico
Jenkins & Kling, LLC
St. Louis, Missouri
Director, Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics
Professor of Law
Harvard Law School
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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
Animal Welfare Activist & SLAPP Survivor
Moderator, SLAPP Victims' Support Group
Law Office of Michael A. Pezza, Jr.
Boston, Massachusetts
Taube Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution
Director, Middle East Forum
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
Executive Director
New York Press Association
McManis Faulkner, LLP
San Jose, California
Distinguished Professor of Journalism and Law at Penn State University
University Park, Pennsylvania
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
Executive Director
First Amendment Coalition
San Rafael, California
Consumer Advocate, Author, Consultant
Bialkin Books
SLAPPed in three states for work on life insurance viatical settlements