Ryan Metheny, an attorney at the California Anti-SLAPP Project (www.casp.net), recently wrote about a lawsuit against the California Republican Party that was dismissed under the CA anti-SLAPP law: “Last week, the California Supreme Court denied review of a decision upholding...
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Professor Eugene Volokh recently covered a case out of Louisiana where a federal judge denied an anti-SLAPP motion and ruled that a death penalty defense organization may proceed with its lawsuit seeking to prevent a former intern from publishing a book about a client. “Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich served as an unpaid summer...
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A PLETHORA OF SLAPP LAWSUITS by Gloria Grening Wolk MSW When I became a consumer advocate and author who exposed fraud in the viatical and life settlements industry I did not have a clue it would result in being SLAPPed with a series of lawsuits. Today, most of the principals of these companies are (a) in prison,...
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Roger Kimball recently published an article for the Houston Chronicle discussing a libel suit in Texas and how anti-SLAPP laws help protect free speech. “Earlier this year, Texas enacted an anti-SLAPP-suit bill, making the state less hospitable to the type of lawsuit that we endured by giving defendants better and quicker...
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Evan Mascagni, PPP Legislative Assistant, Organizer, and Webmaster, recently had an article published on Policy Mic discussing a new lawsuit in which a dentist is attempting to silence her critics, adding to the growing list of dentists who are attempting to use the legal system to silence any negative reviews of their...
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In light of the recent sex scandal involving Herman Cain, Adrianos Facchetti posted an article on the California Defamation Law Blog addressing whether or not a public figure’s sex life is a matter of public interest under the CA anti-SLAPP statute. “Political and sports figures have recently argued that their sex lives...
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