Robber Barons, back-stabbers and extortionists: How far does anti-SLAPP protection go?

Urban Lawyer

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 745-756

  Wilson, Paul D ^a   Shaw, Noah C ^a  

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LEGAL SYSTEM; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; SOCIAL POLICY;

RHODE ISLAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84859813524     PISSN: 00420905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

References (17)

1. The 27 states with Anti-SLAPP statutes are Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Guam, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont and Washington. Your State's Free Speech Protections, THE PUBLIC PARTICIPATION PROJECT, http://www.anti-slapp.org/?q=node/12 (last visited June 19, 2011). The states with judicial doctrines only are Colorado and West Virginia. Id.
2. See, e.g., MASS. GEN. LAWS ch. 231, § 59H (2011). For a fuller explanation of Anti-SLAPP statutes, see Paul D. Wilson, Of Sexy Phone Calls and Well-Aimed Golf Balls: Anti-SLAAP Statues in Recent Land-Use Damages Litigation, 36 URB. LAW. 375 (2004).
3. F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, The Rich Boy, in ALL THE SAD YOUNG MEN, 5-42 (James L. W. West ed., Cambridge Univ. Press 2007) (1926).
4. Pennsbury Vill. Assocs., 11 A.3d at 910.
5. 27 PA. CONS. STAT. § 8302 (a) (2009).
6. Pennsbury Vill. Assocs., 11 A.3d at 911.
7. See Pennsbury Vill. Assocs., 11 A.3d at 915.
8. Citizens for Ethics in Gov't, 694 S.E.2d at 686.
9. Citizens for Ethics in Gov't, 694 S.E.2d at 688.
10. Godin, 629 F.3d at 92.
11. Godin, 629 F.3d at 79.
12. Godin, 629 F.3d at 87
13. (quoting Shady Grove, 130 S. Ct. at 1449 (Stevens, J., concurring)).
14. Godin, 629 F.3d at 88
15. (quoting Shady Grove, 130 S. Ct. at 1437).
16. Godin, 629 F.3d at 88-90.
17. Godin, 629 F.3d at 92.