(Podcast) The Briefing: IP Rights and the “Public Good” Exemption to California’s Anti-SLAPP Law: An Update
The Briefing: IP Rights and the “Public Good” Exemption to California’s Anti-SLAPP Law: An Update
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 strategic lawsuits against public...more
In 2022 and early 2023, voting machine companies and the parents of school shooting victims won a string of court rulings against the media companies and personalities that had allegedly spread defamatory, viral lies about...more
An anti-SLAPP motion was properly denied because the claims for damages arose from breach of contract and tort actions, not from any protected First Amendment activity. Oakland Bulk and Oversized Terminal, LLC v City of...more
In Shopoff Advisors, LP v. Atrium Circle, GP, the buyer and seller to a real estate transaction sued each other. No. 04-18-00438-CV, 2019 Tex. App. LEXIS 5764 (Tex. App.—San Antonio July 10, 2019, no pet. history)....more
A dispute involving an online media publisher has prompted California’s Legislature and Governor Jerry Brown to revise California’s libel law, in an effort to protect such publishers. California’s Civil Code Section 48a...more