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

October 5, 2020February 18, 2021 caspadmin

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,

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

September 8, 2020January 11, 2022 caspadmin

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

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California Leads the Country in Protecting Online Anonymity

September 10, 2012September 13, 2022 caspadmin

Ken Paulson, President of the The First Amendment Center, recently wrote a piece titled “Online anonymity no sure thing in libel cases,” where he discussed a “number of cases in recent months in which judges have upheld subpoenas that give … Read the rest