Three “international businessmen” claim they were defamed by certain statements contained in one of the reports comprising the “Trump Dossier.”
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The developer of the Dakota Access oil pipeline on Monday amended a $1 billion racketeering lawsuit it filed last August against three environmental entities after a federal judge criticized the original filing as vague and threatened to throw it out of court.
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A private prison contractor has threatened to sue the civil-rights activists mounting protests against it.
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The California Supreme Court passed on actress Olivia de Havilland’s publicity rights challenge to an FX television show.
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A law firm was granted dismissal of tort claims under the MA anti-SLAPP law.
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A Texas attorney filed a $100 million lawsuit claiming he was fired from a law firm because of internet postings accusing him of being a “Nazi” and a “white supremacist.”
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In February, several entities owned by Tavis Smiley sued the Public Broadcasting System, alleging that PBS’s public statements – that it had received multiple credible allegations of misconduct by Smiley and that it had conducted an investigation into those allegations – were false and defamatory, and led to the alleged cancellation of existing contracts and interference with future business relationships.
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A senior judge of the federal District Court for Eastern Arkansas, dismissed a SLAPP suit last week that was filed by Energy Transfer Partners a year ago that attempted to hold BankTrack, a Dutch environmental group, legally responsible for disrupting the progress of the Dakota Access pipeline.
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Former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore filed a lawsuit against several people and PACs who allegedly ran or contributed to misleading commercials against him during his unsuccessful bid for U.S. Senate.
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The wife of a county official said she won’t let a “frivolous” defamation lawsuit filed against the couple by the Trumbull County engineer stop her from exercising her First Amendment right to free speech.
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A federal judge dismissed criminal racketeering claims against a nonprofit that wrote letters to banks asking them not to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline.
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In a dispute between a former employee and former employer a judge denied the employee’s motion to dismiss under Massachusetts’ anti-SLAPP statute, finding that none of the employer’s claims were based solely on the employee’s petitioning activity.
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A North Texas attorney who claimed he was fired because of defamatory statements made about him will continue to pursue his lawsuit against the man who allegedly made the statements.
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In the final post of a three-part series from guest contributor Leslie Paul Machado, Chair of LeClairRyan's Media, Internet and E-commerce Industry Team, Mr. Machado discusses the impact of these decisions on the legal landscape and the need for a federal anti-SLAPP law.
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In the second post of a three-part series from guest contributor Leslie Paul Machado, Chair of LeClairRyan's Media, Internet and E-commerce Industry Team, Mr. Machado discusses the D.C. Circuit's decision on whether the D.C. anti-SLAPP statute can be used in federal diversity cases.
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