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Showing posts with label petition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label petition. Show all posts
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 ...
Saturday, July 16, 2022

'Civil death,' denial of tort claims, violates prisoners' right of access to courts, R.I. high court holds

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N.C. State Archives public domain photo via Wikimedia Commons The Rhode Island Supreme Court in March struck down the state "civil dea...
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, September 27, 2021

FOIA requesters need protection against retaliation; in egregious case, court allows First Amendment theory

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Intersection of state highways 42 & 61 in Conyngham Town, Pa. (2019 photo by Mr. Matté CC BY-SA 3.0 ) A bizarre FOIA case decided by t...
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, May 31, 2017

Anti-SLAPP gone wild: Massachusetts tightens the reins

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The anti-SLAPP cases kept coming from the Massachusetts appeals courts in May.   I posted previously on anti-SLAPP in the Massachusett...
Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Anti-SLAPP helps free speech vanquish another foe! But is that always how it works?

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The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) has rejected a defamation claim connected with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on anti-...