You may not have known that Florida has had an anti-SLAPP law on the books for the last decade. Probably because it was so narrow that it only applied to lawsuits filed by the government. However, this year the legislature substantially revised that law, and on July 1, 2015, a new Florida anti-SLAPP law went into effect.…
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Thanks to a tip-off from the Die Troll Die blog, we can see 40 new Manny Film lawsuits in our Florida courts. The chart below was pulled this morning from PACER. All of these cases, as indicated by “flsdce” are in the Southern District of Florida. The image is a portion of the complaint. The lawsuits…
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4th DCA: CDA applies to injunctions, too Earlier this month, the Fourth District Court of Appeals found that the Communications Decency Act protected websites in actions for injunctive relief as well as those for damages. West Palm Beach medical tech company Medytox Solutions, Inc. sued InvestorsHub.com to have allegedly defamatory postings removed from the website. Although the…
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