Anti-SLAPP Law

11/13/2019

This video explains very well what a SLAPP suit is all about. I have stopped scores of people from harassing my clients with bogus lawsuits over the years. Check out this entertaining and educational video.

After winning a legal battle involving a coal executive and a giant squirrel, John Oliver explains how SLAPP suits are designed to stifle public dissent. Con...

08/17/2015

This op-Ed piece is somewhat inaccurate as to the mechanics of the SLAPP statute, but it's good that the statute is getting this attention.

02/19/2012

http://www.defamationlawblog.com/2011/02/articles/antislapp/is-the-antislapp-statute-being-abused/

In what will probably be one of the most significant anti-SLAPP cases of 2011, the First District in Grewal v. Jammu, expressed in no uncertain terms

02/19/2012

http://www.defamationlawblog.com/2011/06/articles/antislapp/experienced-antislapp-lawyers-are-few-and-far-between/

I routinely hear the following kinds of comments from experienced civil litigators in Los Angeles: In my 40+ years of practice as a business litigator

02/19/2012

http://www.defamationlawblog.com/2011/11/articles/antislapp/federal-claims-antislapp-motions/

Few lawyers are aware that the anti-SLAPP statue applies at the federal level, although some of its provisions are not applied because they collide wi

02/19/2012

http://www.defamationlawblog.com/2011/11/articles/antislapp/antislapp-defendants-burden-of-proof-prong-two/

A common cause of failure on an anti-SLAPP motion is a misunderstanding of the evidentiary burdens each side must satisfy. I suppose its understandabl

02/19/2012

http://www.defamationlawblog.com/2011/12/articles/antislapp/is-a-public-figures-s*x-life-a-matter-of-public-interest-under-the-antislapp-statute/

Political and sports figures have recently argued that their s*x lives are not a matter of public interest. Consider, for example, Herman Cain: in res

02/19/2012

http://www.defamationlawblog.com/articles/antislapp/

Potential clients and attorneys often ask me what kinds of claims are typically subject to an anti-SLAPP motion. The correct answer is that regardless of the label given a claim, it may still be subject to Code of Civil Procedure 425.16 if it arises from petitioning or free speech activity. Having s...

05/02/2011

http://new.bangordailynews.com/2011/01/04/politics/judge-seeks-review-of-anti-slapp-law/

MACHIAS, Maine — In November, when Justice Kevin Cuddy tossed out an election-tampering lawsuit filed in Washington County Superior Court by national activist Ralph Nader, he said he was compelled to dismiss the case based on Maine’s anti-SLAPP law. But now, in a four-page order issued Dec. 28, Cudd