How State High Courts Are Reshaping Anti-SLAPP Laws

By Clifford Zatz, Joseph Meadows and Laura Offenbacher Aradi (July 31, 2017, 1:03 PM EDT) -- Three recent decisions, just weeks apart, from the California, Massachusetts and Texas high courts reflect continued judicial shaping of anti-SLAPP statutes. Anti-SLAPP statutes are aimed at curbing "strategic lawsuits against public participation," or "SLAPPs," which are meritless lawsuits intended to intimidate and silence critics exercising their First Amendment rights....

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