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The Illinois Supreme Court ruled that a defamation suit filed by a high school basketball coach against about a dozen critics is not subject for dismissal under Illinois’ Citizen Participation Act, a statue aimed to prevent Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP).
The Washington, D.C., attorney general has until the end of this month to explain to the court why he believes the latest challenge to the District's anti-SLAPP law is not valid.
District Judge Robert L. Wilkins issued the order to allow Attorney General Irvin Nathan to intervene in the case of attorney Lanny Davis, a Fox News contributor and former Clinton adviser who is accused of making a series of defamatory statements against Minnesota-based company 3M Corp.
An Academy Award-winning film that addressed “an issue of paramount importance in the Iraq war” is protected speech about a public issue, a federal judge in California ruled yesterday, dismissing a U.S. serviceman's lawsuit alleging “The Hurt Locker” unlawfully benefited from the use of his identity without his consent.
Urging the U.S.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to uphold the constitutionality of the Washington anti-SLAPP statute, which provides broad protection for action involving public participation and petition.
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press has filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals in Seattle (9th Cir.) urging it to uphold the constitutionality of Washington state’s anti-SLAPP law.
Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder has dropped his $2 million libel and defamation lawsuit against Washington City Paper, which would have tested the district's new anti-SLAPP legislation.
"We prefer to focus on the coming football season and the business at hand," according to a team statement. Snyder announced his decision Saturday, on the eve of his team's season-opening matchup with the New York Giants.
A Dallas land developer failed to show sufficient evidence to maintain his defamation lawsuit against the author and publisher of a book that criticized his involvement in a city's eminent domain plan, a Texas appellate court ruled yesterday in a case that exemplified why the state recently enacted an anti-SLAPP statute.
Texans sued for exercising their First Amendment rights now have a quick way to dismiss such lawsuits after the state’s governor signed an anti-SLAPP bill into law on Friday.
A San Diego radio talk show commentator was shielded from libel claims brought by a former public high school principal after reporting on an audit into whether the principal used school resources to sell ads for a gay magazine, a California appellate court ruled last week.
Amicus brief in Castello v. City of Seattle
Urging the U.S.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to uphold the constitutionality of the Washington anti-SLAPP statute, which provides broad protection for action involving public participation and petition.