Fighting SLAPPs, Protecting the First Amendment
The Trump campaign’s lawsuit earlier this year against the New York Times for an opinion piece published by Max Frankel on March 27, 2019, … Read the rest
Rarely does one individual so perfectly demonstrate the need for strong anti-SLAPP laws at both the state and federal level, but leave it to California’s own Devin Nunes to be the poster child for the need for strong protections against … Read the rest
California’s anti-SLAPP law recently assisted in giving some closure to a defendant who had been battling with a vexatious litigant in California courts for the past ten years.
The dispute began back in 2005 when Lipworth (the defendant in the … Read the rest
On Friday, June 27, 2014, the Court of Appeal, Sixth Appellate District, held that the anti-SLAPP law does not apply to causes of action arising from attorneys’ withdrawal of settlement funds because that withdrawal was neither communicative nor related to … Read the rest
In 2010, Tarla Makaeff (Makaeff) filed a deceptive business practices class action lawsuit in federal court against Trump University (Trump), alleging that Trump never delivered on its promises of the scope and benefits of the program that lured her into … Read the rest
Whether or not a pre-litigation demand letter is extortionate as a matter of law has been a hot topic in anti-SLAPP litigation over the past ten years.
In 2006, the Supreme Court held that the anti-SLAPP law does not apply … Read the rest
UPDATE: On August 13, 2014, the California Supreme Court unanimously voted to grant a petition for review in this case, to address the following issue: “Did votes by city officials to approve a contract constitute conduct protected under Code of … Read the rest
Late last month, the Court of Appeal, First Appellate District, Division Three, ruled in CalPERS v. Moody’s that Standard & Poor’s and Moody’s Investors Service Inc. (S&P and Moody’s) must face the California Public Employees’ Retirement System’s (CalPERS) $1 billion … Read the rest
Evan Mascagni and Mark Goldowitz
In D’Arrigo Bros. of California v. United Farmworkers of America, D’Arrigo sued UFW for breach of contract. UFW moved to strike the complaint under the anti-SLAPP law, but the trial court denied the motion. … Read the rest
On Friday Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Andrew Hurwitz issued an opinion in Obsidian Finance Group, LLC. v. Cox. His opening line was as follows:
“This case requires us to address a question of first impression: What First … Read the rest