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Free Speech Under Attack (Part III): The Legal Assault on Environmental Activists and the First Amendment

caspadmin — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 07:05:00 +0000

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Devin Nunes Won’t Stop Suing to Silence Critics

Mark Goldowitz — Mon, 10 May 2021 18:23:58 +0000

by Flynn Ezra Beckman

We thought we would check in on Devin Nunes and see how his nine (9!) defamation suits are going.

When last we wrote about Devin Nunes in September, he had filed numerous potential SLAPP suits … Read the rest

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Non-Disparagement Agreements and the Law

Mark Goldowitz — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 01:57:35 +0000

by Evan Mascagni

Non-disparagement clauses are making a lot of headlines these days. Just last month, a federal judge ruled against Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and held that a broad non-disclosure agreement that the campaign required employees to sign … Read the rest

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Filing “Fake Lawsuits” to Fight the “Fake News”

Evan Mascagni — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 16:46:34 +0000

How the Trump campaign is highlighting the need for stronger First Amendment protections across the country

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

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Devin Nunes – California’s SLAPP-Filer-in-Chief

Evan Mascagni — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 17:19:21 +0000

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

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Supreme Court Limits Right to File Certain Anti-SLAPP Motions

Mark Goldowitz — Sat, 31 Mar 2018 21:59:39 +0000

On March 22, 2018, the California Supreme Court issued an opinion in Newport Harbor Ventures, LLC v. Morris Cerullo World Evangelism, S239777, which limits the right to file certain anti-SLAPP motions.

Code of Civil Procedure section 425.16, subdivision (f) … Read the rest

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California Supreme Court Reins in Abuse of Anti-SLAPP Law

Mark Goldowitz — Fri, 05 May 2017 20:57:44 +0000

On May 4, 2017, the California Supreme Court issued an important opinion that reins in abuse of the anti-SLAPP law by government entities. In Park v. Board of Trustees of the California State University, the Court ruled unanimously that … Read the rest

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MOMENTUM BUILDS FOR FEDERAL ANTI-SLAPP LAW

Mark Goldowitz — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 20:04:23 +0000

by: Mark Goldowitz

CASP Joins 33 Other Organizations in Letter Urging Congress to Enact SPEAK FREE Act.

“On May 13, 2015, bi-partisan co-sponsors in the House introduced the SPEAK FREE Act of 2015, a law designed to protect Americans from … Read the rest

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Vexatious litigant and attorney sanctioned for filing frivolous anti-SLAPP appeal

Evan Mascagni — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 20:56:00 +0000

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

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Court of Appeal Holds That Anti-SLAPP Law Does Not Apply to Claims Arising from Attorneys’ Withdrawal of Settlement Funds

Evan Mascagni — Wed, 02 Jul 2014 02:27:20 +0000

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

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