This article examines the nexus between state and federal law where SLAPP and Anti-SLAPP statutory schemes are litigated by a federal district court sitting in diversity. In particular, this article will explore the standard the federal court should apply when an Anti-SLAPP early motion to dismiss is brought by SLAPP defendant and the plaintiff challenges dismissal on the basis of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure pursuant to the regime established by the Supreme Court in Hannah v. Plumer
NOTE: The attached article is an updated version of the print edition, 9Dec2014. California was the ...
The archetypal constitutional plaintiff represents a class, sues in federal court, and asks the cour...
For decades federal courts have remained mostly off limits to civil rights cases challenging the con...
This article examines the nexus between state and federal law where SLAPP and Anti-SLAPP statutory ...
Legislatures across the United States have passed laws to combat strategic lawsuits against public p...
In recent years, dozens of states have enacted anti-Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation ...
The Supreme Court’s landmark decision in New York Times v. Sullivan was meant to protect our fundame...
This Note compares the different treatment of state anti-SLAPP laws in federal courts, especially in...
Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation, or “SLAPPs,” are frivolous lawsuits used to silence...
(Excerpt) An old proverb says that “when the student is ready[,] the teacher appears.” In this colla...
For nearly thirty years, states have been adopting laws that attempt to stop rich, sophisticated par...
Dozens of states have enacted anti-Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP) laws to c...
State courts decide claims based on federal or sister-state law every day. Although the applicable c...
A Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation -commonly referred to as a SLAPP-is a lawsuit int...
article published in law reviewOne little-noticed side effect of the litigation explosion in this co...
NOTE: The attached article is an updated version of the print edition, 9Dec2014. California was the ...
The archetypal constitutional plaintiff represents a class, sues in federal court, and asks the cour...
For decades federal courts have remained mostly off limits to civil rights cases challenging the con...
This article examines the nexus between state and federal law where SLAPP and Anti-SLAPP statutory ...
Legislatures across the United States have passed laws to combat strategic lawsuits against public p...
In recent years, dozens of states have enacted anti-Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation ...
The Supreme Court’s landmark decision in New York Times v. Sullivan was meant to protect our fundame...
This Note compares the different treatment of state anti-SLAPP laws in federal courts, especially in...
Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation, or “SLAPPs,” are frivolous lawsuits used to silence...
(Excerpt) An old proverb says that “when the student is ready[,] the teacher appears.” In this colla...
For nearly thirty years, states have been adopting laws that attempt to stop rich, sophisticated par...
Dozens of states have enacted anti-Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP) laws to c...
State courts decide claims based on federal or sister-state law every day. Although the applicable c...
A Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation -commonly referred to as a SLAPP-is a lawsuit int...
article published in law reviewOne little-noticed side effect of the litigation explosion in this co...
NOTE: The attached article is an updated version of the print edition, 9Dec2014. California was the ...
The archetypal constitutional plaintiff represents a class, sues in federal court, and asks the cour...
For decades federal courts have remained mostly off limits to civil rights cases challenging the con...