California Anti-SLAPP Project


Bibliography on SLAPPs

Newspapers and Magazines (1993 - 1997)


1993

"SLAPP's Come to Britain," The Ecologist, Vol. 23, No. 5: 165 (Simon Fairlia).

"The Hazards of Free Speech," What's Happening, Eugene, OR, January 7, 1993, (editorial by Jim Stiak).

"SLAPPs Build Blockade to Public Participation in Government Affairs," Lake Union Review, February 1993, (by Michelle C. Buetow).

"Bulldozed: Developers and Others are Using the Court System to Stymie Opposition," Creative Loafing, February 6, 1993, (by Paula Neal).

"SLAPPs Surge North: Canadian Activists Under Attack," New Catalyst Quarterly, Winter 1992/93, (by Kim Goldberg).

"SLAPPed Down: Chenault's Ruling Underlines Rights of the Public," Lexington Herald-Reader, February 20, 1993, (editorial).

"Shut Up or Be Sued," Providence Phoenix, February 25, 1993, (by Lisa Prevost).

"Take That! Citizens are SLAPPing Back," Providence Phoenix, February 25, 1993, (by Lisa Prevost).

"Your Right to Speak In Public Is In Jeopardy," Town-Crier Newspaper, February 25, 1993, (editorial).

"Intimidation May be Suits' Intent," Providence Business News, March 8, 1993, (editorial by John M. Boehnert).

"AG Speaks Out Against SLAPPs: Pine: Go With the Flow," Providence Phoenix, March 11, 1993, (by Lisa Prevost).

"Law Professor: SLAPPs Bill Fails to Protect Citizens," Journal Inquirer, March 20, 1993, (by Edmund Mander).

"Bill Aims to Thwart Bullying Lawsuits," Boston Globe, March 23, 1993, (by Dianne Dumanoski).

"Court Refuses Developer's Suit: Action Likely Dooms Slander Case Against Condo Critic," Journal Inquirer, March 30, 1993, (by Edmund Mander).

"In Zeal to Keep Lawyers Quiet, Some People Push the Limits," Denver Post, April 20, 1993, (by Kevin Simpson).

"Citizens SLAPP Back With Success," Fort Worth Star-Telegram, May 25, 1993, (by Stefani Gammage Kopenec).

"SLAPPed Citizens Win Big Lawsuits," Honolulu Star-Bulletin, May 27, 1993, (by Stefani Gammage Kopenec).

"Tarrant Woman Feels Vindicated by Company's Apology After Suit," Fort Worth Star-Telegram, May 9, 1993, (by Stefani Gammage Kopenec).

"A Formal Apology to Mrs. Dale Reed," Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth times-Eagle, Fort Worth Times-Record, May 9, 13, 20, 1993, (Ad purchased by Insulation Materials Corporation of America).

"Public Apology Relieves Local Protester," Fort Worth Times-Record, May 13, 1993.

"'SLAPP' solicitation suit barred", ABA Journal, June, 1993, Vol. 79: p.26(2) (by Don J. DeBenedictis).

"Legislators: SLAPP Suits Gag Speech," Orlando Sentinel, July 12, 1993, (by Gerard Sheilds).

"Club SLAPPs Back," Sierra, July/August, 1993, (by Phillip S. Berry).

"Developer Sued Opponents Because It Believed They'd Failed to Honor Their Word," Sierra, July/August, 1993, (by James N. Penrod and Barry D. Brown).

"Trial to See if Residents Were Hurt by Lawsuit," Times Union, Albany, NY, October 5, 1993, (by Michael McKeon).

"In My View," Action Line, Fall 1993, (editorial by Priscilla Feral).

"Anti-SLAPP Protection Covers All Participants," San Francisco Daily Journal, October 14, 1993, (by Jennefer Pittman).

"Judge Rules Lawsuit was Intimidation," Santa Cruz Sentinel, October 15, 1993, (by Steve Perez).

"Counties SLAPPed by $62,980 Verdict," Times Union, October 15, 1993, (by John Caher).

"The Judge says SLAPP shield covers all remarks," Los Angeles Daily Journal, October 15, 1993, Vol. 106, No. 208: 2 (by Jennefer Pittman).

"Interpretation of law on sanctions affirmed; maximum fine allowed each defendant," New York Law Journal, November 10, 1993, Vol. 210, No. 92: 1 (by Cerisse Anderson).

"Legislation provides prompt review of SLAPP suits," New York Law Journal, December 13, 1993, Vol. 210, No. 113: 1 (by Terry Rice).

1994

"Local Dispute Led Walsh to Press for "SLAPP" Law," Boston Globe, January 9, 1994, (by Michael Kenney).

"Committee Slaps Down SLAPP Suit Bill," Fulton County Daily Report, March 1, 1994, (by Charles W. Griffin, III).

"Panel Swats Frivolous Suit Bill," Tampa Tribune, March 11, 1994, (by Kevin Metz).

"House Panel Defeats Bill for Protection from Suits," Orlando Sentinel, March 11, 1994.

"SLAPPed Down: Bill to Protect Defendants," Tallahassee Democrat, March 15, 1994, (Democrat News Services).

"Chilling Free Speech with Lawsuits," Tampa Tribune, March 15, 1994, (editorial).

"Seeliger SLAPPs Down Brock Construction's Suit," Fulton County Daily Report, April 15, 1994 (by Charles W. Griffin, III).

"Superior Court Judge Takes Swipe at SLAPP," DeKalb Extra, April 15 1994 (by Mark Silk).

"Jury Rewards Pair Who Got SLAPPed," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 24, 1994, (by William C. Lhotka).

"Fighting Intimidation by Lawsuit: Bill Would Protect Public Against Developers Going to Court to Silence Opponents," Boston Globe, May 7, 1994, (by Karen Curran).

"If You Speak Out in Public, the Target May SLAPP You," Richmond Times-Dispatch, June 5, 1994, (by Rex Springston).

"SLAPP Suits Featured in ALI-ABA Seminar," Daily Journal, San Francisco, CA, July 11, 1994, (Class Notes).

"Suing Citizens into Silence," Defender, July, 1994 (by James Bovard).

"Ruling Protects Citizens' Public Speech," Wall Street Journal, August 17, 1994 (by Frances A. McMorris).

"Slap Down SLAPPs," Providence Journal-Bulletin, September 11, 1994 (editorial).

"Even Lofty Goals Don't Supersede First Amendment," Rocky Mountain News, September 26, 1994 (column by Nat Hentoff).

"Citizens SLAPPed for Speaking Out, Rocky Mountain News, October 5, 1994 (editorial by Eleanor H. Ayer).

"Pest-Control Firms Want to Take Sting from Law," Broward Herald, October 31, 1994 (column by Steve Bousquet).

"Behind the Fronts: The Anti-Environment Movement Unmasked," Greenpeace Australia.

"Toxic Shock," Florida, December 18, 1994: 9-19 (by Michael McLeod).

1995

"Developer's attorney: Lawsuit no SLAPP," Pittsburgh Tribune Review, February 19, 1995 (by William Opalka).

"Critics of City Hall SLAPPed with Suits," Orange County Register, April 7, 1995 (by Katie Hickox).

"Is it Anti-Government to Oppose the Rich and Powerful Who Run It?" The Confessing Synod Ministries, May-June, 1995 (editorial).

"Some relief in sight for SLAPP targets: abuse of process counterclaim allowed," Pennsylvania Law Weekly, May 1, 1995, Vol. 18, No. 18: 1 (by Mary Ellen Fox).

"Using Antitrust Law to Prevent Land Use 'SLAPP Suit'," New Jersey Law Journal, June 26, 1995, Vol. 104, No. 13: S6 (Bruce D. Greenberg).

"Firm's suit raises questions about SLAPP law," Los Angeles Daily Journal, July 31, 1995, Vol. 108, No. 143: 3 (by Dolores Ziegler).

"SLAPP shots; protection of speech about land use is at issue," Los Angeles Daily Journal, September 18, 1995, Vol. 108, No. 177: 7 (by Daniel J. Curtin, Jr.).

"Judge dismisses $20 million libel suit against law firm," Los Angeles Daily Journal, September 18, 1995, Vol. 108, No. 153: 2 (by Dan Lee).

"Is SLAPP Law Foiling Legitimate Lawsuits? Private Homeowners Encounter Obstacle," Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, September 25, 1995: 1 (by Mark A. Cohen).

"Anti-SLAPP' statute protects newspaper from libel suit," San Francisco Chronicle - News, Media and the Law, Fall, 1995, Vol. 19, No. 4: 32-33.

"Slapping Back," Citizens Coal Council Magazine, Fall, 1995: 14 (by Carolyn Johnson).

"Fending Off SLAPPS," Wild Earth, Fall, 1995: 59 (by Ned Mudd and Ray Vaughn).

"Veggie Libel Law Slaps at the Critics," News-Watchman of Waverly, Ohio; Clermont Sun of Batavia, Ohio; Monroe County Beacon of Woodsfield, Ohio; Chronicle-Telegram of Elyria, Ohio; Tribune Chronicle of Warren, Ohio; Tipp City Herald of Tipp City, Ohio; Times Leader of Martins Ferry, Ohio; November 2, 1995 (by Laura Yeomans).

"Veggie Libel Bill Could Be Used To Gag Scientists And Environmental Activists," The Daily Record, November 5, 1995 (by Laura Yeomans).

"SJC To Hear Appeal On Anti-SLAPP Suit Statute," Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, November 6, 1995: 1 (by David L. Yas).

"Parking Protest Becomes Issue of Free Speech: Town home owners exercise rights as builder threatens to file suit," Washington Post, December 16, 1995, p.E-1 (by Judith Evans).

1996

"Treyburn Suit Alarms Environmentalists," The News and Observer of Raleigh, N.C., January 6, 1996 (by James Eli Shiffer).

"Developers of Sprawl Slap Opposition With Litigation," Preservation News, January/February, 1996 (by Constance Beaumont).

"Speak easy; appellate decisions implement anti-SLAPP law," Los Angeles Daily Journal, February 7, 1996, Vol. 109, No. 26: 7 (by Mark Goldowitz).

"Federal Ruling on SLAPP suits requires intent," Los Angeles Daily Journal, February 22, 1996, Vol. 215, No. 35: 1 (by Deborah Pines).

"The Market Attack on Dissent," Z Magazine, March, 1996 (by Edward S. Herman).

"Slapp-Happy Companies," New York Times, March 29, 1996.

"A Slapp Suit Intended to Intimidate, Harass and Silence", FARFEP News Letter, April, 1996 (by George R. Schwartz, M.D.).

"How to be an Activist Without Being Sued," Peak and Prairie, April/May, 1996 (by Tom Quinn, Chapter Legal Chair).

"Corporations Are the Ones Who Are Suing," Press-Telegram (Long Beach), April 1, 1996, and Sacramento Bee, April 6, 1996 (by George W. Pring and Penelope Canan).

"Look Who's Really Abusing the Legal System," Missoulian (MT), March 31, 1996, and Star Tribune (Minneapolis), April 8, 1996 (by George W. Pring and Penelope Canan).

"SLAPPED," The Independent Weekly, April 10, 1996 (by Sue Sturgis).

"Watershed," The Independent Weekly, April 10-16, 1996 (by Sue Sturgis).

Interview of Penelope Canan and George Pring, Literary Life section of The Source, University of Denver, Denver, CO, April 29, 1996: 3.

"SLAPP Suits Seek to Silence Public," The Narragansett Times, May 8, 1996 (by Catharine F. Seigel).

"World Is Getting SLAPP-Happy," National Law Journal, May 20, 1996, p. A19. (George Pring and Penelope Canan).

"A Drive to Stifle Litigation: Chrysler Tries to Slam Door on Class Action It Calls Frivolous with a Lawsuit and a Request for Sanctions," ABA Journal, June 1996 (by Mark Hansen).

"States Have Moved to Keep Plaintiffs From Using Courts to Muzzle Critics," New York Times, June 11, 1996 (by Judith Miller).

"SLAPP-Happy Discourse," Insight, June 24, 1996 (by Jeffrey R. Sipe), p. 37.

"Supreme Court Rules Lawsuit Unconstitutional: The decision favors a North Kingstown woman who was sued after speaking out on a public matter," Providence Journal-Bulletin, June 26, 1996, p. B1.

"New Laws Muzzle Lawsuits Aimed at Silencing Critics," San Diego Union & Tribune, June 29, 1996, p. A25.

"Rhode Island: High court SLAPPs down challenge to law preserving citizen group free speech," West's Legal News, July 17, 1996 (by Jonathan Kerr).

"SLAPP-happy: Grassroots Protesters Say They Are Being Gagged," Maclean's, August 19, 1996, pp. 48-49 (by Ruth Abramson).

"Citizen Protestors Get SLAPP in the Face," Reporter, Santa Fe, NM, August 27, 1996 (by Kay Bird).

"Warren County settles lawsuit with protesters," Times Union (Albany, NY), August 28, 1996: B7 (by John Caher).

"The Price of Speaking Out," American Bar Association Journal, September 9, 1996 (by Alexandra Lowe).

"Neighborhood Group Gets SLAPPed by Landlord," U.S. Business Litigation, October 1996 (by Michael D. Fibison).

"Silencing Citizens," The Review in The Gazette, December 7, 1996 (by Debbie Parkes).

"Speaking out lands activist in Court," Daily Record, December 26, 1996 (Christine Gardner).

1997

"Anti-Slapp Statutes," Zoning and Planning Law Report, January, 1997, Vol. 20, No. 1: 1-6 (by James Wickersham).

"Suits Still Slapping Free Speech Rights," San Francisco Chronicle, February 17, 1997 (by Lionel Rolfe).

"Senator offers bill to protect against corporate lawsuits," The Oberlin Herald, February 19, 1997: 3A (by Brodie Farquhar).

"'SLAPP lawsuits get legislative look," Parsons Sun, February 19, 1997.

"Witnesses: Major lawsuits scare citizens from process," Topeka Capital Journal, February 19, 1997 (by Lew Ferguson).

"Gigantic lawsuits used to intimidate," The Iola Register, February 20, 1997: 4 (editorial).

"SLAPPed: Bogus lawsuits threaten freedom of expression," The Wichita [Kansas] Eagle, February 21, 1997: 10A (editorial).

"SLAPP happy," Salina [Kansas] Journal, February 23, 1997 (by George B. Pyle).

"Measure targets lawsuits," The Las Vegas Review-Journal, February 27, 1997 (by Sean Whaley).

"Bill Would Prohibit Intimidation by Lawsuit," Kansas Lawyer, Week of February 23-March 1, 1997 (7K.L. 78): 2.

"Right to speak out: Kansans should maintain that right," Garden City Telegram, March 10, 1997 (editorial).

"SLAPP Shot: The ACLU jumps into Warren Hern's battle with Ken Scott," Westword, April 3-9, 1997: 12 (by Steve Jackson).

"Woman wins $25,000 for stand against dump," The Providence Journal-Bulletin, April 14, 1997: 1C.

"Law Firm SLAPPed With Libel Suit: Litigants in These Cases Are More Evenly Matched," U.S. Business Litigation, April 1997: 1, 14-15 (by Bruce Rubenstein).

"SLAPP-suit foe pushes for Fair Housing Act change," First Amendment News, May 1997, Vol. 3, No. 5: 5.

"Slapped down," Las Vegas Review-Journal, May 26, 1997: A6.

"Georgia's New Anti-SLAPP Statute: Protecting the Right of Free Speech Against Meritless Claims," Georgia Bar Journal, June 1997 (Daniel A. Kent and Douglas M. Isenberg)

"Firm Slapped with Libel Suit: Lawyers are now Targets," Merrill's Illinois Legal Times, June 1997, Vol. 11, No. 122 (by Bruce Rubenstein).

"SLAPP Happy: Corporations That Sue to Shut You Up," PR Watch, 2nd Quarter 1997, Vol. 4, No. 2: 7-9.

"Private power plant generates dispute: Citizens take on deregulated industry," The Patriot Ledger (Quincy, MA), August 18, 1997 (by Trudy Tynan).

"Clearing Up Calif.'s SLAPP Confusion," The National Law Journal, September 1, 1997: A8 (by B.J. Palermo).


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