Business Litigation > First Amendment & Anti-SLAPP
ERTW has a growing First Amendment and anti-SLAPP statute practice. In recent years, the firm’s attorneys have handled numerous defamation cases, as well as cases in which they have invoked the procedural protections afforded by California’s anti-SLAPP statute to defend their clients’ constitutional freedoms of speech and petition.
The following is a representative list of First Amendment/Anti-SLAPP cases on which ERTW lawyers have recently worked:
- Representing a lawyer sued by a famous performer after the lawyer sent the performer a pre-litigation settlement demand letter on behalf of a client which the performer contended was illegally coercive.
- Representing animal rights activists sued by a contract animal testing laboratory because of the activists’ protest activities against the laboratory, which had been cited numerous times for violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act.