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EU Anti-SLAPP Directive: Public Participants May Claim Compensation for Strategic Litigation Outside EU

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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

WilmerHale

Disinformation Litigation Lessons From Media Co. Losses

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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

Perkins Coie

Anti-SLAPP Motion May Not Be Based on Speech Activities Merely Incidental to Asserted Claims

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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

Winstead PC

Court Holds That Economic Loss Rule Bars Conspiracy To Breach Fiduciary Duty Claims

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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

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

That’s TheWrap: A Change In California Law To Protect Online Media Publications

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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

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