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- Dec 28, 2014
So I am showing that all my legal knowledge comes from Law and Order reruns and Ace Attorney, but what is SLAPP?
A special motion to dismiss based on the lawsuit being frivolous and retaliation against free speech. SLAPP = Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation. The victorious defendant has their attorney fees paid by the plaintiff for wasting everyone's time.
The dismissal is on the complaint, and assumes all factual allegations by the nonmoving party to be true for the purposes of the motion. So unless Vic somehow agrees that every one of these defamatory per se statements are true, there's no basis for such a motion.