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Aaron KellerMay 18th, 2021, 7:23 pm Former Fox Business host Lou Dobbs interviews Sidney Powell. Leaning heavily on the First Amendment and raising election controversies predating the 2020 presidential contest, Fox News Network, LLC on Tuesday filed papers to dismiss a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems over the fallout of the election which removed Donald Trump from the White House. The motion to dismiss says Fox’s “responsible journalists . . . covered both sides” of the 2020 election controversy and that the network’s opinion hosts provided commentary wh...

Sunday, April 11, 2021 In  TSA-Tex. Surgical Assocs., L.L.P. v. Vargas, one partner sued his other partners for various claims regarding the defendants attempt to squeeze the plaintiff out of the partnership. No. 14-19-00135-CV, 2021 Tex. App. LEXIS 1330 (Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.] February 25, 2021, no pet. history). The defendants filed a motion to dismiss under the Texas Citizens Participation Act (TCPA), and the trial court denied the motion. The defendants appealed. The TCPA was enacted “to encourage and safeguard the constitutional rights of persons to petition, speak...

Mon, Apr 5th 2021 3:40pm — Mike Masnick A little over a year ago, a DC watchdog group had asked the Office of Congressional Ethics to investigate Rep. Devin Nunes over his total failure to disclose who the hell is paying for all of his various frivolous SLAPP suits. As the group, Campaign Legal Center noted, Congress is forbidden from receiving free legal services unless they have set up a Legal Expense Fund -- and at least at the time of the investigation request, Nunes had not done so, despite having filed a bunch of lawsuits over the previous year. As far as I can tell, nothing ever happ...

Back in July, we noted that after years of living with a pathetically weak anti-SLAPP bill, the NY legislature had finally approved a...

Fri, Mar 12th 2021 9:33am — Mike Masnick A little over a year ago we wrote about a laughably stupid SLAPP suit that the Trump campaign, represented by Charles Harder, filed against the NY Times. As we noted at the time, the lawsuit appeared to have no intention of succeeding -- it was purely performative nonsense. The lawsuit claimed that an opinion piece by Max Frankel was defamatory because it noted that whether or not there was any explicit collusion between the Trump Campaign and Russia, it didn't matter, since both sides seemed to expect certain outcomes and allowed them to act accordi...