Fighting SLAPPs, Protecting the First Amendment
Very interesting decision by California’s First Appellate District in a case called Summit Bank v. Rogers this week regarding a 100-year old criminal defamation statute, Financial Code section 1327, which makes it a misdemeanor for any person to make any … Read the rest
Following up on our post regarding the ridiculously overbroad first draft of Arizona’s new cyber harassment law, it seems the state legislature of New York has also hopped aboard the bandwagon of passing unconstitutional prior restraints on internet speech. … Read the rest
TechDirt and others are reporting on an interesting possible SLAPP filed by an Oregon church, the Beaverton Grace Bible Church, against a former member who wrote a bad review of the church online on her blog. The statements the … Read the rest
After the Court of Appeal reversed the trial court’s ruling on six of seven claims against CASP’s clients, the trial court granted defendants’ motion for attorneys’ fees in an award of more than $80,000. Pursuant to the anti-SLAPP law, defendants … Read the rest
On November 9, 2010, the 6th District Court of Appeal reversed the trial court’s denial of an anti-SLAPP motion to strike a dentist’s claims of libel per se and international and negligent infliction of emotional distress, filed against two parents … Read the rest