How to Use anti-SLAPP law in a Sentence

anti-SLAPP law

noun
  • How does Indiana's anti-SLAPP law work?
    — Cate Charron, IndyStar, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Leslie invoked Arizona's anti-SLAPP law to quash the pastors' suit.
    — Taylor Seely, AZCentral.com, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Indiana's anti-SLAPP law has often been used to protect news outlets' right to freedom of the press.
    — Cate Charron, IndyStar, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Proving such claims is harder than what the anti-SLAPP law demands, prosecutors wrote.
    — Taylor Seely, AZCentral.com, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The bill will likely include language akin to Colorado’s and other states’ anti-SLAPP laws, Crow said.
    — Seth Klamann, Denver Post, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Mitchell asked the judge to consider overturning the anti-SLAPP law, either in its entirety or in its use in criminal cases.
    — Taylor Seely, AZCentral.com, 12 Nov. 2025
  • The judge, though, ruled that Figliuzzi was unable to recover attorneys fees and costs under Texas’ anti-SLAPP law.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Over the past seven years, anti-SLAPP laws have been increasingly adopted, the Tennessean reported.
    — Cate Charron, IndyStar, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Ortiz could assert the anti-SLAPP law as a defense if Miller were to investigate and prosecute her, Leslie said.
    — Taylor Seely, AZCentral.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Prosecutors alternatively asked the court to overturn the anti-SLAPP law, either in its entirety or in its use in criminal cases.
    — Taylor Seely, AZCentral.com, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Costner and his company are seeking to throw out the suit under California’s anti-SLAPP law, which is designed to protect free speech on matters of public concern.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Tennessee is considered to have some of the strongest anti-SLAPP laws in the country, alongside California, according to the report.
    — Angele Latham, The Tennessean, 26 Aug. 2025
  • But Texas’ anti-SLAPP law does not apply in federal court, so the judge rejected Figliuzzi’s request to make Patel cover his legal costs.
    — Chris Brennan, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2026
  • While ruling on the key question of defamation in Figliuzzi's favor, the judge denied his request that he be awarded court costs and attorneys' fees under Texas' anti-SLAPP law.
    — Dan Mangan, CNBC, 22 Apr. 2026
  • The pair succeeded by through the use of California's anti-SLAPP laws, which include protections against retaliatory legal action.
    — Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Jan. 2026
  • The Times is also seeking compensatory and punitive damages from Wayfarer, citing New York’s anti-SLAPP law.
    — Angela Yang, NBC news, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell is challenging Arizona's anti-SLAPP law in court.
    — Taylor Seely, AZCentral.com, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Costner’s lawyer, Marty Singer, sought to throw out the suit under California’s anti-SLAPP law, which is designed to protect free speech from frivolous litigation.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 16 Oct. 2025
  • If the officer found the citizen speeding and issued a ticket, that activist should be able to use the anti-SLAPP law in defense, even though the speeding wasn't lawful and didn't involve First Amendment expression.
    — Taylor Seely, AZCentral.com, 12 Nov. 2025
  • At the June 1 hearing, her lawyer compared the law to anti-SLAPP laws that are supposed to deter defamation suits that are actually designed to stifle speech (per Courthouse News Service).
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 12 June 2026
  • Attorneys for protester Michaela Koert asked the University Lakes Justice Court in June to dismiss the charges, based on the anti-SLAPP law.
    — Taylor Seely, AZCentral.com, 24 Oct. 2025
  • But a 2022 change expanding Arizona's anti-SLAPP law to apply in criminal cases — the only state to do so — opened the door to examining prosecutorial motives.
    — Taylor Seely, AZCentral.com, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Costner is also seeking to toss out the lawsuit under California’s anti-SLAPP law, measures designed to protect individuals from lawsuits intending to intimidate them from exercising their right to free speech.
    — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2025
  • A number of these changes are due to the creation of a standard anti-SLAPP law that was adopted by the Uniform Law Commission — a nonpartisan body of lawyers that help write model legislation for all states — in 2020.
    — Angele Latham, The Tennessean, 26 Aug. 2025
  • The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press notes Indiana's anti-SLAPP law has also been used to defeat cases seeking to chill coverage of a town council meeting, a pharmaceutical safety investigation and a town attorney's comments about another lawyer.
    — Cate Charron, IndyStar, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Tennessee’s protections against SLAPP suits were strengthened by the 2019 Tennessee Public Participation Act, which expanded the state’s previous anti-SLAPP law.
    — Angele Latham, The Tennessean, 26 Aug. 2025

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