Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell, the region's top prosecutor, is seeking to overturn a law that protects the public from lawsuits that stifle civic participation. In a court filing Oct. 17, ...

The Directive: The European Union's Directive 2024/1069 (the "Directive") aims to protect individuals and organizations engaged in public participation (such as NGOs, journalists and academics) from ...

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

“SLAPP” is an acronym for Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation. The term was coined in the 1980s to describe lawsuits initiated to silence public speech about issues of public importance.

The First Amendment Watch is a project sponsored by the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University. The stated mission of the Watch is to document threats to the freedoms of speech, ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has held that a person who brings and loses a special motion to strike under California's Anti-SLAPP law has no right to an immediate appeal in federal ...

While some anti-SLAPP attorneys wholeheartedly agreed with the decision and the way anti-SLAPP case law is developing in Connecticut, others say the decision did not provide complete clarity and left ...

A national free-speech organization gave Indiana a passing grade for a longstanding law meant to protect Hoosiers' First Amendment rights. In its annual report card released Aug. 25, the Institute for ...

The James R. Browning U.S. Court of Appeals Building, the headquarters of the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco. (Sanfranman59, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Courthouse News) (CN) — The Ninth Circuit Court of ...

An initial wave of decisions indicates that trial courts are not hesitating to enforce the legislative scheme by cutting off non-meritorious speech-based claims and awarding fees. Explore the entire ...