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Defamation Suit Offers Early Test of Ohio’s New Anti-SLAPP Statute

In Cambridge, Ohio attorneys have filed what may be the state’s first anti-SLAPP motion. The newly established legal procedure gives defendants a tool to dismiss frivolous lawsuits filed to suppress their protected speech. According to the Institute for Free Speech, 38 states have now passed laws protecting against strategic lawsuits against public participation, or SLAPP. […]

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