Clinic Asks Court to Award SLAPP Fees After "Doe" Case Dismissed
Today, Cyberlaw Clinic student Erica Platt filed the Appellant's Opening Brief in Ampex v. Doe. Ampex filed a defamation suit in California against an anonymous former employee. The Cyberlaw Clinic challenged the suit under California's Anti-SLAPP statute. Rather than litigate the motion, Ampex dismissed the suit and refiled in New York, which has a much narrower anti-SLAPP statute. The appeal asserts that the court should grant the employee his attorney's fees to dissuade Ampex and others from filing meritless cases in the California courts just to determine an anonymous speaker's identity, then dismissing.
The Brief will be online here soon!