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I'Ll Huff And I'Ll Puff - But Then You'll Blow My Case Away: Dealing With Dismissed And Bad-Faith Defendants Under California's Anti-Slapp Statute, Jeremiah Ho
Jeremiah A. Ho
This Article will demonstrate that, despite efforts to recognize SLAPPs and to safeguard our legal process from abuses, SLAPP suits and their underlying interference with the legitimate exercise of the right to petition can often engender new ways of creeping back onto the legal stage to wreak havoc on the private citizen - that the devious, shape-shifting Big Bad Wolf of First Amendment rights can return to reprise its role as the subversive villain and to trot unsuspecting litigants out to slaughter. After an introduction into the general world of SLAPPs and the specific history behind California's section 425.16, this …
California V. Larue: The Demise Of The “Bottomless” Bar , Doris M. Felman
California V. Larue: The Demise Of The “Bottomless” Bar , Doris M. Felman
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
The California Approach To The Yielding Of The Newsman's Shield Law, Ronnie Schwartz
The California Approach To The Yielding Of The Newsman's Shield Law, Ronnie Schwartz
Pepperdine Law Review
No abstract provided.
Analysis Of A First Amendment Challenge To Rent-A-Judge Proceedings , Perry L. Glantz
Analysis Of A First Amendment Challenge To Rent-A-Judge Proceedings , Perry L. Glantz
Pepperdine Law Review
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Outing The Majority: Gay Rights, Public Debate, And Polarization After Doe V. Reed, Marc Allen
Outing The Majority: Gay Rights, Public Debate, And Polarization After Doe V. Reed, Marc Allen
Michigan Journal of Gender & Law
In 2010, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Doe v. Reed that Washington citizens who signed a petition to eliminate legal rights for LGBT couples did not have a right to keep their names secret. A year later, in ProtectMarriage.com v. Bowen, a district court in California partially relied on Reed to reject a similar request from groups who lobbied for California Proposition 8-a constitutional amendment that overturned the California Supreme Court's landmark 2008 gay marriage decision. These holdings are important to election law, feminist, and first amendment scholars for a number of reasons. First, they flip the traditional …