In New York in 2026, defendants who move fast can often turn the tables early through strict timing rules, hard fact-versus-opinion lines, ...

Law firms, while it’s understandable they would be protective of their reputation and responsive to negative commentary ...

This piece breaks down the en banc decision in three parts. Part 1 is a primer on D.C. Home Rule—which is central to the decision. Part 2 describes the concerns posed by “SLAPPs” (an acronym for ...

Pennsylvania’s Anti-SLAPP statute provides immunity from civil liability for individuals engaged in “protected public expression,” which includes the exercise of freedom of speech on matters of public ...

University School of Nashville alum Gidgie Bass has asked a court to dismiss a defamation claim from Dean Masullo, her former English teacher, who left the school in 2024 after being publicly accused ...

Free speech is one of America's greatest rights. The year 2025 was a big one for the Uniform Public Expression Protection Act ("UPEPA"), which is the only uniform and most popular Anti-SLAPP law in ...

KAMLOOPS — A Kamloops city councillor says she’s feeling vindicated now that a B.C. Supreme Court judge has dismissed one of Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson’s two defamation suits against her, and is calling ...

Senate Bill 666/Assembly Bill 701, would adopt Uniform Public Expression Protection Act would bring free speech protections ...

SYRIZA MEP Costas Arvanitis stated that the recent rejection by Greek courts of punitive lawsuits against Stelios Kouloglou ...

A new report by the Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation and CASE warns that Malta still has the highest per-capita rate of SLAPP cases in the EU, despite being the only country to partially implement an ...

Colorado Rep. Ron Weinberg, a Loveland Republican, has dropped a defamation lawsuit he filed against two women who accused him of sexual harassment, ahead of a key court hearing this week.

Letter demanding government include anti-SLAPP provisions in next King’s speech ‘sends powerful message British courts should ...