Monthly Archives: December 2018

In 2015, when the DC Circuit held the D.C. anti-SLAPP statute conflicts with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and thus could not apply in a federal court diversity case, it became the first federal Court of Appeals to so hold. Now there are two.

In September, I wrote about the anti-SLAPP special motion to dismiss filed by The Saudi American Public Relation Affairs Committee and Salman Al-Ansari (its founder/president) in response to a suit by The Institute for Gulf Affairs and Ali Al-Ahmed (its founder).