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How can this strategy of vexatious litigation be allowed to continue unabated?

Awarding punitive costs against legal practitioners would make them think twice about facilitating delaying tactics and malicious law suits.

The case was raised in the Dáil by the Green Party’s Neasa Hourigan last year.

Senate Bill 896 has the potential to force people into silence for fear of legal costs.

Unavailability of video after Index on Censorship event in Dublin could be another worrying instance of self-censorship

Where a plaintiff commercial landlord has filed a special motion to dismiss counterclaims asserted by the defendant tenant, that motion should be denied under the anti-SLAPP statute (G.L.c. 231, §59H), as the counterclaims are based on the landlord’s conduct in relation to the parties’ lease, not on the landlord’s petitioning activity. “Plaintiff lessor 75 State

Chargers Communications The Los Angeles Chargers today re-signed center/guard Will Clapp.Clapp remains in Los Angeles after appear

"Its a dark day in Indiana," said LaPorte County Auditor Timothy Stabosz.

Where a defendant has filed a special motion to dismiss pursuant to the anti-SLAPP statute (G.L.c. 231, §59H), that motion should be denied because the defendant’s behavior, made in the context of an investigation into the plaintiff’s lab at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, did not involve seeking redress from the government and thus

Media rights organisations have likened Jacob Zuma’s private prosecution of journalist Karen Maughan to a strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP) case - aimed at silencing her.