In what looks like a potential SLAPP, Jay Leno and NBC are being sued after he made a joke involving Mitt Romney and the Sikh holy shrine temple. “Jay Leno thought he was poking gentle fun at the lifestyles of rich and famous Republican presidential candidates — Mitt Romney in particular. But last Thursday when Leno’s...
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The Illinois Supreme Court recently narrowed the scope of the state’s anti-SLAPP law in Sandholm v. Kuecker. In the case, a high school coach sued for defamation against the defendants after they began “a campaign to oust him as the head basketball coach. In the process of their campaign, the Plaintiff alleged that the...
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“A District of Columbia judge ordered the first dismissal under the jurisdiction’s new anti-SLAPP law, finding at the start of a defamation lawsuit that a firefighter failed to show a “likelihood of success” in challenging a television broadcast about his high levels of overtime earnings. Judge Rufus G....
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Community leaders throughout Clackamas County, OR, are rallying against a federal lawsuit filed by a developer that they fear could stifle public participation in local land use decisions and government. “Leaders of the Mt. Hood Corridor community planning organization say the lawsuit they face from local developer Kip...
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The American Bar Association recently published its fourth annual collection of the best writing on land use law, At the Cutting Edge 2011: Land Use Law from The Urban Lawyer. One of the articles included in the collection is: “Robber Barons, Back-Stabbers, and Extortionists: How Far Does Anti-SLAPP Protection Go?” by...
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