A Vermont man sued a local newspaper for defamation, appealing the case to the Vermont Supreme Court. The paper challenged the lawsuit under Vermont's "anti-SLAPP" law.
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The California Supreme Court issued a ruling in Hassell v. Bird, a case with serious ramifications for consumer speech.
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The Baton Rouge television station WBRZ-TV faced a lawsuit for defamation from a former police officer, though the station’s attorney said the suit should be dismissed under Louisiana’s anti-SLAPP law.
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An appeals court in California tossed a lawsuit filed against the San Francisco Chronicle by a now-disbarred lawyer who claimed the newspaper defamed him. The appeals court affirmed dismissal based on California’s anti-SLAPP law.
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Attorneys for 20th Century Fox asked a Los Angeles Superior Court judge to throw out a countersuit that Netflix filed against Fox. Fox said the countersuit should be thrown out because it concerned protected speech under the California anti-SLAPP statute, but the judge rejected the motion. Then a three-judge panel of the 2nd District Court of Appeal upheld the lower court’s ruling, deciding that the Netflix countersuit was not barred by the anti-SLAPP statute.
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A gubernatorial candidate who garnered headlines after police dragged her off a stage during a Democratic candidates’ forum filed a defamation lawsuit against two reporters for the Stamford Advocate.
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A Dallas-based investor filed a defamation lawsuit against NPR and a reporter for $57 million in damages based on a story.
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The sculptor behind “The Bean,” the famous sculpture in Chicago, filed a copyright lawsuit against the NRA for briefly showing the sculpture in an advertising video.
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Two weeks after reviving claims in an underlying case, the Georgia Court of Appeals tossed a defendant’s defamation claim against an attorney for posting an article on his law firm’s website about a personal injury lawsuit he filed. The appeals court said Georgia’s anti-SLAPP statute barred the lawsuit filed by a woman who was accused of using Snapchat’s Speed Filter to take a selfie just before she hit another car and seriously injured its driver in 2015.
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Aaron Freiwald, Managing Partner of Freiwald Law and host of the weekly podcast series Good Law | Bad Law, was joined by Brenda Skylstad to discuss her role in creating important anti-SLAPP legislation.
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An oil company sued a citizen activist for talking on a Facebook post about their settlement of an antitrust case. After prolonged and expensive procedural maneuvering, a Colorado state judge issued an order granting summary judgment to the activist.
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A California Appeals Court affirmed a trial court’s denial of an anti-SLAPP motion that defendants filed in a lawsuit in which plaintiffs claimed that public school officials took retaliatory actions against a former board member by disseminating confidential medical information and making claims of improper activity against her.
A Texas appellate court sided with a blog and its author, holding that a trial court had wrongly declined to dismiss a defamation claim brought by a school principal and ruling a state free speech law protects the blog posts at issue on the ground they concern matters of public concern involving public officials.
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Attorneys for the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press filed an anti-SLAPP motion, asking a Florida state court to dismiss a defamation lawsuit against the President of News for Univision over an opinion column he published about a Colombian attorney.
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A towing company sued a student in a $500,000 defamation lawsuit, claiming he allegedly disparaged the company online. The student had previously sued the company over a parking ticket.
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