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Category: 1st Amendment

How Anti-SLAPP Laws Protect Your Right to Free Speech

How Anti-SLAPP Laws Protect Your Right to Free Speech The First Amendment protects freedom of speech. We are free to speak out on issues we care about without fear that…

Code of Civil Procedure – Section 425.16 California’s Anti-SLAPP Law

Code of Civil Procedure – Section 425.16 California’s Anti-SLAPP Law Code of Civil Procedure – Section 425.16. (a) The Legislature finds and declares that there has been a disturbing increase…

Free Speech, the First Amendment, and Social Media

Free Speech, the First Amendment, and Social Media by John Bandler NOTE: This is my original article after the events of 1/6/2021 and is not updated regularly and does not…

Anti-SLAPP and Free Speech in Defamation & Emotional Distress Cases

Anti-SLAPP and Free Speech in Defamation & Emotional Distress Cases Anti-SLAPP statutes are laws intended to curb – and, often, penalize – the filing of Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation…

Anti-SLAPP Law Cases – Case Law Summaries & Citings

Anti-SLAPP Law Cases – Case Law Summaries & Citings Anti-SLAPP laws, which stand for Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation, are designed to protect individuals from lawsuits intended to silence or…

Anti-SLAPP Law in California

Anti-SLAPP Law in California 1st Amendment Freedom of Press & Speech California Supreme Court Confirms that the “anti-SLAPP” Statute Applies to Claims of Discrimination and Retaliation Anti-SLAPP Law Cases –…

Court tosses disbarred lawyer’s suit over newspaper article

Court tosses disbarred lawyer’s suit over newspaper article on his ethics case with a ‘crime’ header An appeals court in California has tossed a suit filed against the San Francisco…

Assembly Bill 748 Makes Video Evidence Captured by Police Agencies Subject to Disclosure as Public Records

Governor Signs SB 1421 and AB 748, Dramatically Increasing Public Access to Peace Officer Personnel Records On September 30, 2018, Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. signed two significant pieces of…

Misconduct by Judges & Prosecutor – Rules of Professional Conduct

Here are all the rules on conduct of all practicing lawyers which include Judges, commissioners, and practicing lawyers Rules of Professional Conduct Chapter 8. Maintaining the Integrity of the Profession…

What’s the Difference between Abuse of Process, Malicious Prosecution and False Arrest?

What’s the Difference between Abuse of Process and Malicious Prosecution? Which of the following cases fits into the tort of abuse of process? and… Which of the following cases fits…

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