PPP Board member Jeremy Rosen recently co-wrote an article with Felix Shafir for Law360 on the complexities of California's anti-SLAPP statute. Click through for the article.
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PPP Policy Director Evan Mascagni published an Op-Ed in Ohio that ran in several newspapers across the state advocating for anti-SLAPP legislation in Ohio. The Op-Ed is published in full below.
Immediately following a report by the New York Times that he allegedly sexually assaulted numerous women throughout his career, Harvey Weinstein threatened to sue the Times for defamation. For First Amendment legal scholars, this comes as no surprise. There’s a long history of powerful bullies attempting to use the legal system to silence their critics.
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Jay Adkisson's Forbes recent article gives a thorough overview of Anti-SLAPP statutes. Click through for the article.
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A plastics company filed a defamation lawsuit against a lawyer who brought one of two lawsuits naming the company as a defendant over an arrangement in which drug court defendants work without pay for private businesses.
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A comedian was served an eye-popping $38 million defamation lawsuit by a fellow comedian after she’d referred to him as a “rapist” on social media.
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Top officials sued the builder of a housing development, alleging he defamed them by accusing them of anti-Muslim discrimination.
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PPP Policy Director Evan Mascagni published an Op-Ed in the Albany Times Union advocating for stronger anti-SLAPP legislation in New York:
"New York is often regarded as the media capital of the world, but in our state, opinions expressed through traditional media outlets, blogs, social media and consumer review websites are not always protected from those who disagree with them."
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This morning, the Public Participation Project submitted the below letter to the Massachusetts’ Judicial Committee in support of H2263 and S756, an anti-SLAPP bill currently before the Massachusetts House and Senate.
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ABC News made an historically large payout to settle a defamation lawsuit, according to a financial release from the network's parent company Disney and an attorney for the plaintiff.
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Texas Laywer's Litigator of the week is defense laywer Adam Milasincic, who has used Texas' anti-SLAPP Statute twice this year to defend his clients for speaking out about an animal rights issue. Read more here.
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A judge dismissed former state Superintendent’s defamation lawsuit against a onetime state representative, and called the comments at the center of the case “the exact type of statements the First Amendment was intending to protect.”
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Sarah Bro with the National Law Review writes:
"In an action involving the popular film series The Purge, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a district court denial of the defendants’ anti-SLAPP motion, holding that the plaintiff’s breach of implied-in-fact contract claim under state law did not arise from protected free speech activity."
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Tim Cushing at Techdirt offers an analysis of CT's new anti-SLAPP law, which was recently unanimously passed by legislators and is headed to the governor's desk.
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A South Dakota meat producer filed a defamation case against ABC news for its reports on the producer's lean, finely textured beef product.
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