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Morrison & Foerster LLP - Left Coast Appeals

This Week at the Ninth: Danish Cults and Defamation

This week, the Ninth Circuit addresses the First Amendment “limited-purpose public figure” doctrine in the context of a charitable organization’s fundraising activities.  The Court holds that charitable organizations...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Climate Speech Wars Heat Up: Greenpeace Fights for Its Right to Call out Big Industry

In 1972, the Sierra Club brought suit in California to temporarily halt logging in a primitive forest to try to prevent despoliation that might have prevented the forest from being considered as a national wilderness area. ...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Appellate Court Denies Special Effects Provider’s Request for Discovery Regarding Anonymous Speaker’s Identity in Defamation Case

Last month the California Court of Appeal addressed whether Avongard Products U.S.A. Ltd., doing business as Hydraulx, a preeminent film industry visual special effects provider, made a prima facie showing that certain...more

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