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Massachusetts court weakens protections from SLAPP lawsuits
(Jeffrey Gould has written for The Saint Report about SLAPP suits and legal rights to protect public participation in the development process. Here he examines the impact of a Massachusetts court ruling that helps developers avoid the consequences of filing such claims.)By Jeffrey R. GouldVice President & General Counsel, The Saint Consulting GroupThe Massachusetts Appeals Court ...
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Citizen group should think twice on ShopRite class action lawsuit
(Jeffrey Gould has written for The Saint Report about SLAPP suits and legal rights to protect public participation in the development process. Here he looks at a citizen group in upstate New York that is threatening to sue ShopRite because the supermarket chain has filed a lawsuit to stop Walmart from building a store.)By Jeffrey GouldVice President and ...
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SLAPP 2: does public’s role in planning process need protection in Canada? Yes
Concern over protecting public participation in the development process is spreading from the US to Canada. Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP) laws, which are common in the US, are being introduced in British Columbia and Quebec, and, the movement is percolating in Ontario as well, writes Paul Devlin, a vice president for ...
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Hitting back at SLAPP suits — Quebec to move against suits that silence protest
Last month we published a report on Legal Rights to Protect Citizens from Getting SLAPPed by Developers' Lawsuits and commentary from Jeffrey Gould, the general counsel for The Saint Consulting Group. Now the Quebec provincial government plans to table anti-SLAPP legislation to protect citizens' rights to free speech as well as their right to protest a ...
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Legal rights to protect citizens from getting SLAPPed by developers’ lawsuits
Columnist Tony Leighton in the Guelph, Ontario Mercury recently highlighted the dilemma that citizen groups face in Canada if a developer threatens to sue them for millions of dollars to recover costs from a project they may oppose. Jeffrey Gould, general counsel for The Saint Consulting Group, points out that unlike Canada, the United ...
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