so e.g. a person is protected from a suit for gene
Post# of 8054
"Farmers should not be able to take priority over the public or the flows necessary to preserve fish species" -
under the slapp statutes farmers could not sue over that statement because its a general statement,does not identity or name individuals ,and is a public policy matter
thats a totally different situation from saying, "farmer so and so bribed a public official so and so to get favored water protection for his farm" -which would be a libelous statement not protected by the statute
in the lieflub case the judge mistakenly put libelous statements against the person of Ken into the 1st category -that of general public policy statements -which the judge thought were made on a chat board if i remember!!!!!!!!!
i was so disgusted in reading the case i only spent a minute or 2 on it because i recognized the manipulation involved