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Attorneys gone wild! Bill would eviscerate Nevada’s strong anti-SLAPP law

Attorneys gone wild! Bill would eviscerate Nevada’s strong anti-SLAPP law
Chuck Muth
April 21, 2015

Thomas(Thomas Mitchell) – In 2013 the Nevada Legislature passed a strong anti-SLAPP law that was called the gold standard of such laws.

SLAPP stands for Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation and is generally defined as vexatious litigation solely designed to squelch free speech under the burden of expensive, tedious and lengthy court wrangling.

But Senate Bill 444 seeks to pull its teeth.

The bill was proffered by Wynn Resorts, whose owner has filed a few defamation suits over the years. It has already passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the full Senate unanimously.

I wrote about the anti-SLAPP law in 2010, when a choir teacher at the Churchill County High School sued a student journalist at the school’s student newspaper for writing an article saying parents were upset that she withheld certain students’ audition tapes from a state musical competition. The case was thrown out with the judge citing the anti-SLAPP statute in effect at the time.

To read the entire column, click here.

 

Mr. Mitchell publishes the 4TH ST8 Blog at www.4thst8.wordpress.com.

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