Every government action against these companies was too late to benefit me. Because I am stubborn, because no on else takes the risk of exposing unindicted con artists, and because I am proud of our First Amendment I will not be silenced.
But until we have a federal anti-SLAPP statute, these meritless lawsuits will continue to consume court resources at an alarming rate. Nothing else will deter SLAPPers. Their deep pockets allow them to drag out litigation in order to run up costs to the defendant--and they write off their own legal costs as a business expense.
When consumer advocates are at risk, the public is at risk. If we are silenced by the economics of defending a meritless lawsuit, the public will suffer from the dearth of information needed to avoid becoming victims.
For more information about anti-SLAPP legislation,
please visit www.anti-slapp.org .
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