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Showing posts with label anti-SLAPP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anti-SLAPP. Show all posts
Thursday, March 7, 2024

UK anti-SLAPP bill takes fire

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The United Kingdom has an anti-SLAPP bill on the table, and lawyer Gideon Benaim has cataloged objections. In broad strokes, the bill foll...
Friday, March 1, 2024

State high court simplifies anti-SLAPP, draws picture

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Notwithstanding the merits of anti- SLAPP statutes—I've opined plenty , including a catalog of problems —the Supreme Judicial Court of ...
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Taxpayers help to fatten Big Law in prosecution that Chinese community chalks up to racial profiling

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Rawpixel CC0 The American trend to embrace attorney fee-shifting is a cash cow for the corporate defense bar. A pending case speaks to the ...
Wednesday, September 6, 2023

Anti-SLAPP protects doctor for reporting patient-doctor's opioid use to physician treatment authority

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Cindy Shebley CC BY 2.0 via Flickr A doctor who prescribed opioids for a fellow doctor and ultimately reported the patient-doctor for possi...
Friday, April 14, 2023

South African court upholds common law abuse of process as defense in prototypical anti-enviro SLAPP

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Petitioners demand EU anti-SLAPP legislation in 2022. Ekō via Flickr CC BY 2.0 The Constitutional Court of South Africa upheld the use of...
Thursday, September 15, 2022

Land dispute implicates 'second element of second path of second stage' of anti-SLAPP analysis, and we're all supposed to pretend the world's better for it

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The Supreme Judicial Court studies its anti-SLAPP framework. Argonne National Laboratory CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 via Flickr Anti-SLAPP analysis in ...
Wednesday, July 6, 2022

Court denies Exxon anti-SLAPP relief in Mass. climate claims; European court bemoans Russian SLAPP

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AG Maura Healey The Massachusetts anti-SLAPP statute does not work in defense of Attorney General enforcement actions, the Supreme Judicial ...
Monday, June 7, 2021

Extortion claim survives anti-SLAPP motion because defendants could not show petitioning connection

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Haverhill, Mass., on the Merrimack River, 2008 ( photo by Fletcher6 CC BY-SA 3.0 ) Defendants could not raise an anti-SLAPP law against al...
Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Media want anti-SLAPP security while ignoring real harm, and nobody wants to talk about tort dysfunction

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Christian Dorn from Pixabay On April 7, one of my favorite podcasts, WNYC's On The Media (OTM), ran a story , not its first , on anti-...
Thursday, February 25, 2021

Despite lack of statute, anti-SLAPP blocks mining company suit as abuse of process in South Africa

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Coffee Bay is a tourist destination on the Eastern Cape. ( photo by Jon Rawlinson CC BY 2.0 ) Two weeks ago, a South African court recogni...
Friday, October 23, 2020

Canadian privacy advocate deploys anti-SLAPP law in suit by electronic exam proctoring company

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John Oliver's Big Coal SLAPP nemesis, Bob Murray, retires Pixabay by Aksa2011 An IT specialist at a Canadian university is defending a...