Jurisdiction, Anti-SLAPP

Something to Talk About: Recent Developments in Federal Court SLAPP Suits

Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP on 10/17/2023

Many states have enacted statutes curtailing Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (known as “anti-SLAPP” statutes) to protect parties from lawsuits designed to chill speech. These statutes vary from state to state,...more

This Week At The Ninth: The Public Interest Exemption to California’s Anti-SLAPP Law

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Left Coast Appeals on 9/25/2023

This week, the Ninth Circuit affirms the district court’s denial of a special motion to strike under California’s anti-SLAPP statute, with two of the judges on the panel questioning the Court’s precedent holding that such...more

Texas’ Anti-SLAPP Regime Does Not Apply in Federal Diversity Cases, Says the Fifth Circuit

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 9/10/2019

A recent decision from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Klocke v. Watson, No. 17-11320 (August 23, 2019), appears to have answered a perennial jurisdictional question that had split federal district courts in Texas for...more

Texas Anti-SLAPP Law: The Expanding Scope of the Texas Citizen’s Participation Act – Part 4 – A decision in Schlumberger, sort of

Gray Reed on 8/28/2015

Since we published Part 3 that discussed the details of an interesting case here in Houston, Schlumberger v. Rutherford, the First Court of Appeals issued its opinion on Tuesday. The best description of the decision is a...more

People v. The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. et al

Best Best & Krieger LLP on 9/3/2014

One thing common to all appellate lawyers— they love to appeal. But, as all appellate lawyers know, the right to appeal is fixed by statute. (Trede v. Superior Court (1943) 21 Cal.2d 630.) Thus, our ability to practice our...more

Jurisdiction › Anti-SLAPP

Something to Talk About: Recent Developments in Federal Court SLAPP Suits

This Week At The Ninth: The Public Interest Exemption to California’s Anti-SLAPP Law

Texas’ Anti-SLAPP Regime Does Not Apply in Federal Diversity Cases, Says the Fifth Circuit

Texas Anti-SLAPP Law: The Expanding Scope of the Texas Citizen’s Participation Act – Part 4 – A decision in Schlumberger, sort of

People v. The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. et al

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