“Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press Executive Director Lucy Dalglish testified before the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee of the Maryland General Assembly, in support of SB 221. which clarifies and modernizes Maryland’s anti-SLAPP law. SB 221 offers several important improvements to the current law,...
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“Recently, Salon’s Glenn Greenwald reported that Idaho billionaire and CEO of Melaleuca, Inc., Frank VanderSloot, has been engaged in a systematic campaign to silence journalists and bloggers from publishing stories about his political views and business practices. VanderSloot and Melaleuca have targeted national news...
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Romney Campaign’s Finance Co-Chair Accused Of Being SLAPP-Happy
from the time-for-a-federal-anti-slapp-law dept
We’ve covered, repeatedly, the problems of people using SLAPP — Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation — lawsuits against people trying to speak their opinion. While some states have...
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“A judge has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to overturn the Olympia Food Co-op’s boycott of Israeli goods, ruling that the lawsuit was an illegal “Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation,” or SLAPP. Bruce Johnson of Davis Wright Tremaine in Seattle, an attorney for the defendants in the lawsuit, said...
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Glenn Greenwald recently wrote a piece on Salon, where he discussed the way a billionaire Romney donor has been threatening to bring frivolous lawsuits against his political critics — magazines, journalists, and bloggers.
Greenwald goes on to discuss SLAPPs generally and the work of the Public Participation Project:...
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