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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. ....
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 ....
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 ....