All articles tagged with #anti slapp
A DC Superior Court judge dismissed the Kennedy Center’s breach-of-contract suit against jazz musician Chuck Redd after he canceled a Christmas Eve performance; the court found there was no binding contract and held the case an improper anti-SLAPP action tied to Redd’s public objection to adding Donald Trump’s name to the Center, with the dismissal granted “with prejudice.”
A federal judge tossed Michael Wolff’s anti-SLAPP suit against Melania Trump after ruling he was trying to litigate a dispute before a formal lawsuit existed, but Wolff says he will continue pursuing the claims via state and/or federal routes, arguing his remarks were protected speech; the judge criticized “tactical gamesmanship,” leaving the legal battle far from over.
A U.S. district judge dismissed Michael Wolff’s anti-SLAPP attempt to block Melania Trump’s forthcoming defamation suit, ruling the move preemptive and an improper forum-shopping tactic. The court declined to exercise jurisdiction and said the dispute should be litigated like any other in the proper forum, with Melania continuing her defamation case in Florida after Wolff’s comments tied to Epstein and the Trump administration.
A New York man named Ivan Cantu was ordered to pay Kim Kardashian’s attorneys over $167,000 in legal fees after he sued over her mistaken Instagram post that wrongly identified him as a Texas death-row inmate. The suit was dismissed on an anti-SLAPP basis, and Kardashian’s fee request was largely granted (reduced from $186,320).
A U.S. district judge tossed Kash Patel’s defamation claim against Frank Figliuzzi, ruling that Figliuzzi’s remark about Patel spending more time in nightclubs than at the FBI’s Hoover building was “rhetorical hyperbole” and not defamation. Patel cannot recover attorneys’ fees under Texas’ anti-SLAPP law. This comes a day after Patel filed a separate $250 million suit against The Atlantic, which is unrelated to this ruling.
A Houston federal judge dismissed Kash Patel's defamation suit against Frank Figliuzzi over a nightclub remark, ruling it was rhetorical hyperbole and not a factual statement; the decision does not award costs under Texas anti-SLAPP law, and Patel's separate $250 million defamation case against The Atlantic is ongoing.