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CA Overturns Restraining Orders Against Animal Rights Activists
Metropolitan News-Enterprise - Los Angeles,CA,USA
A statutory petition for a restraining order to prevent workplace violence is subject to an anti-SLAPP motion, the Court of Appeal for this district ruled ...

Attorney/Litigant
May Recover Fees for Representing Others
Metropolitan
News-Enterprise - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... San Diego Superior
Court Judge Eddie Sturgeon's order awarding fees to San Diego attorney
Julie Hamilton for her successful handling of an anti-SLAPP motion.
...

Activists
claim victory against developers
Salt
Lake Tribune - United States
... The pair filed a courteraction,
calling the developer's action a SLAPP - Strategic Lawsuit
Against Public Participation - that, until this week, slogged on for ...

Developer's
tactic strikes chilling note
Orlando
Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USA
... But now some have been
fighting back. Their weapon of choice is the SLAPP lawsuit. SLAPP
... McElroy. He says this is not a SLAPP action. ...

Raising
A Red Flag Over Arcola
FortBendNow
- Richmond,TX,USA
... me and many other residents in
our community who spoke up against apartments here earlier in the year
in the Sienna Plantation subdivision (see SLAPP suit on ...

Overstock.com
responds to hedge fund
BusinessWeek
- USA
... and Gradient filed motions in California court
under the state's Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation statute,
also known as anti-SLAPP, to strike ...

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- Focus Media Completes Acquisition of Framedia ... [+]
Bolsamania.com
- Madrid,Madrid,Spain
...
[+]. (PRN) - Overstock.com Files Responses to the Rocker Partners and
Gradient Analytics Demurrers and Anti-SLAPP Motions ... [+. ...

Developers
in Maitland, Winter Park sue critics
Orlando
Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USA
... participation," or
SLAPPs. Twenty-five states, including Florida, have passed some form of
anti-SLAPP legislation. Florida's statute ...

Mosque
lawsuit dismissal is sought
Boston
Globe - United States
... statements they had made were
protected by a 1994 law -- the Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation
statute (known by its acronym SLAPP) -- which the ...

Coach's
Suit Against Parent Who Called Him Unstable Held SLAPP
Metropolitan News-Enterprise - Los Angeles,CA,USA
Defamation
claims by a high school baseball coach against parents who tried to get
him fired from his job are barred by the anti-SLAPP law, this district's
...

The
public starts SLAPPing back
Chicago
Tribune - United States
... "I think there has been
some education of lawyers who now realize the potential dangers of filing
a SLAPP," said Mark Goldowitz, director of the California
Anti ...

Activist must pay political opponent's attorney fees
Malibu Times - Malibu,CA,USA
... decision based on a state law that is designed to protect people from being sued for politically strategic reasons, what is known as the anti-SLAPP law. ...