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SJC: Benefit of anti-SLAPP extends to blogging activists
Distinction made between objective journalists, opinion writers
The Supreme Judicial Court has decided that the state’s anti-SLAPP law shields bloggers championing a public, rather than personal, cause. A scientific consulting firm argued that it should be able to pursue a defamation claim against the bloggers, relying on SJC precedent that had muddied the waters as to whether one needed to be addressing a ...
