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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.

WEED, Cali. -- In an effort to take advantage of an individuals First Amendment right to Freedom of Speech; a group was silenced.

Where (1) a defendant pediatrician who treated the plaintiff’s daughter filed a report with the Department of Children and Families of possible child neglect by the plaintiff and (2) the plaintiff then brought suit against the defendant and her employee for defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress, the plaintiff’s suit must be dismissed as

Three Ontario nurses are suing the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) and a news organisation for libel. The nurses ...

Where a defendant hospital has been sued over its petition to seek temporary involuntary hospitalization of a plaintiff, the hospital’s special motion to dismiss the plaintiff’s complaint under the anti-SLAPP statute (G.L.c. 231, §59H) should be denied because (1) the plaintiff is not complaining solely about the hospital’s petitioning activity but also about the hospital’s

Where (1) a defendant’s application for a criminal complaint against a plaintiff was denied by a District Court clerk-magistrate, (2) the plaintiff later sought reimbursement of his counsel fees, and (3) the defendant then filed a special motion to dismiss pursuant to the anti-SLAPP statute, the defendant’s interlocutory appeal from the denial of that motion

The plaintiffs leased a condo from the defendant in the above building. A burst pipe caused severe water damage to their unit. References to settlement negotiations in a landlord’s answer to a lawsuit by tenants alleging lease and Chapter 93A violations constituted grounds to strike his pleading, a Housing Court judge has ruled. Plaintiffs Jake

Where plaintiff tenants have filed a special motion to dismiss a counterclaim asserted by the defendant landlord, that motion should be allowed because the counterclaim is based on protected petitioning activity by the tenants. “… Here, Count II of [defendant Matthew J.] DiRoberto’s counterclaim seeks an injunction to prohibit Plaintiffs’ claims against him ‘in toto’

How those exposing corruption are targeted, bullied, left unsupported and offered no recourse

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