Anti-SLAPP resources

Resources on SLAPP suits (lawsuits targeting the First Amendment)

• Texas’ Anti-SLAPP Law
• The Public Participation Project– an effort to get a federal Anti-SLAPP law passed.
• The First Amendment Project: Anti-SLAPP Resource Center
• SLAPP Happy- List of Corporations that Sue to Shut You up– by the Center for Media and Democracy’s PR Watch
• California Anti-SLAPP Project
• Media Law Resource Center’s list of Legal Actions Against Bloggers
• The Citizen Media Law Project’s list of state Anti-SLAPP laws
• The Newsroom Law Blog’s Overview of Anti-SLAPP law

Other First Amendment Resources

• The Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas
• The First Amendment Toolbox from the Society of Professional Journalists
• The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (they also have a legal hotline for journalists)
• Online Media Legal Network

If you have been sued:

• advice on hiring and finding a lawyer.
• The Texas Bar Association

If you need a lawyer in Texas to help you with a SLAPP suit or a threat of a SLAPP suit:

• Laura Prather is the Austin First Amendment attorney who led the effort to pass the Texas Anti-SLAPP law.
• Arif Panju is an attorney with the Institute for Justice and is currently defending author Carla Main in her SLAPP suit.
• Alicia Wagner Calzada is an attorney who worked on the Texas Anti-SLAPP law and is the author of this blog.
• PLEASE NOTE: sending an email to the attorneys above does not create an attorney-client relationship.