...to provide for expedited relief from SLAPPS, to help protect the defendants in SLAPP cases, and to provide monetary relief to the victims of a SLAPP. SLAPPs are generally meritless...
...Bridget Bittman during her employment at the Library (which ended ignominiously in July 2015, shortly after a defamation lawsuit was filed against Bittman for allegedly making knowingly false statements to...
...against them by former OPPL spokesman Bridget Bittman. SHUT UP! is one of the only books available that not only documents a SLAPP from beginning to end but also provides...
...documents a SLAPP (strategic litigation against public participation) lawsuit that Bittman filed against the authors and teaches readers what they can do to survive and defeat such a SLAPP. There...
...accusations would have been exposed for the lies that they were). SLAPPers (what experts on SLAPPs call the plaintiffs who file SLAPPs) as a rule do not expect to win...
...argue is a SLAPP (Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation) lawsuit filed against the Village and several individual Board members by the Buckeye Community Hope Foundation (an Ohio-based developer whose business...
...filing that SLAPP. In addition to Jennings, American Library Association members encouraged and promoted Bittman’s SLAPP lawsuit and egged Bittman on. Her results in federal court are also a major...
...did was typical of SLAPPs…where the SLAPP filer (the SLAPPer) doesn’t expect the lawsuit to survive motions to dismiss and doesn’t intend for the lawsuit to be strong enough to...
...at her enemies harassing the board attorney to sue her enemies and then threatening D-142 officials when the attorney would not file a SLAPP for her (pages 11-13 and 26-37)...
...which provides for sanctions against attorneys who file SLAPP lawsuits and compels people who initiate SLAPPs to cover all legal costs from such actions. SLAPPs are meant to silence criticism,...
