anti-slapp
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-951 | Morgan Banks, et al. v. David H. Hoffman, et al. | District of Columbia | 2026-02-10 | Pending | anti-slapp congressional-mandate d-c-council federal-rules home-rule-act superior-court | May the D.C. Council impose the D.C. Anti-SLAPP Act's special-motion-to-dismiss procedures in Superior Court notwithstanding Congressional mandates re… | |
| 25A685 | Gopher Media LLC, a Nevada Limited Liability Corporation, fka Local Clicks, dba Doctor Multimedia, et al. v. Andrew Melone, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-11 | Application | anti-SLAPP appellate-jurisdiction collateral-order federal-courts interlocutory-appeal state-law-privilege | Whether orders denying state-law anti-SLAPP motions qualify as immediately appealable 'collateral orders' under federal appellate jurisdiction standar… | |
| 25-644 | Albert G. Gerhart v. Charity Linch, Chairwoman, Oklahoma Republican Party | Oklahoma | 2025-12-04 | Pending | Response Waived | anti-slapp derivative-action due-process judicial-bias procedural-conflict shareholder-rights | Whether due process was violated in a derivative action lawsuit involving shareholder rights and procedural conflicts |
| 25A572 | Ian Buenaventura v. Leslie Buot | Maine | 2025-11-14 | Application | anti-slapp due-process first-amendment judicial-bias pro-se procedural-fairness | Whether the First Amendment and due process protections are violated by a court's systematic procedural bias that impairs a pro se litigant's ability … | |
| 25A377 | Ian S. R. Buenaventura v. Leslie G. C. Buot | Maine | 2025-10-01 | Presumed Complete | anti-slapp first-amendment interlocutory-appeal judicial-review pro-se procedural-due-process | Whether a state court's dismissal of an interlocutory appeal under an anti-SLAPP statute violates a pro se litigant's First Amendment right to appeal … | |
| 25-185 | Barry Rosen v. City of Hawthorne, California | California | 2025-08-15 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | anti-SLAPP attorney-fees declaratory-relief petition-clause prior-restraint vehicle-code | Whether a state anti-SLAPP statute imposing attorney fees and striking a motorist's challenge amounts to a penalty and prior restraint in a petition f… |
| 24-1320 | Centerline Logistics Corporation, et al. v. Inlandboatmen’s Union of the Pacific, et al. | California | 2025-06-27 | Denied | Response Waived | actual-malice anti-SLAPP defamation due-process first-amendment jury-trial | Whether the Supreme Court should overturn the actual malice standard from New York Times v. Sullivan and whether anti-SLAPP statutes violate the Seven… |
| 24-6825 | Jane Doe v. Jack Dwosh | California | 2025-03-21 | Denied | IFP | anti-slapp constitutional-rights federal-courts first-amendment petition-clause state-courts | Whether anti-SLAPP statutes used in state and federal courts violate First Amendment rights of plaintiffs to petition the courts when even meritorious… |
| 24-829 | Steve Wynn v. The Associated Press, et al. | Nevada | 2025-02-04 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | actual-malice anti-SLAPP defamation first-amendment public-figure seventh-amendment | Whether the Supreme Court should overturn the actual-malice standard for public figure defamation plaintiffs and whether applying this standard in ant… |
| 24A508 | Steve Wynn v. The Associated Press, et al. | Nevada | 2024-11-22 | Presumed Complete | actual-malice anti-slapp defamation first-amendment jury-trial new-york-times-v-sullivan | Whether the First Amendment's actual malice standard under New York Times v. Sullivan improperly limits a public figure's right to a civil jury trial … | |
| 23-1328 | Yuval Golan v. Daily News, L.P., et al. | New York | 2024-06-20 | Denied | Response Waived | anti-slapp constitutional-rights defamation first-amendment jury-trial public-figure public-figures seventh-amendment | Is the New York anti-SLAPP statute unconstitutional? |
| 23-5169 | Michael Mogan v. Sacks, Ricketts & Case LLP, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-07-21 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | anti-SLAPP anti-slapp-statute civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-procedure magistrate-judge magistrate-jurisdiction rule-11-sanctions rules-enabling-act statutory-interpretation | Did the Ninth Circuit erroneously fail to recognize that 28-U.S.C-636(c) precludes the parties from selecting a particular magistrate-judge |
| 23A46 | Paule McKenna v. Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., et al. | California | 2023-07-18 | Presumed Complete | anti-SLAPP commercial-speech first-amendment lanham-act right-of-publicity trademark-infringement | Whether the First Amendment protects the use of a person's likeness in a commercial film from liability under the Lanham Act and state right of public… | |
| 22-726 | Alejandro Evaristo Perez v. LinkedIn Corporation | Ninth Circuit | 2023-02-03 | Denied | anti-slapp bioweapon-allegations civil-rights due-process free-speech judicial-misconduct pro-se rule-40 standing takings veterans veterans-rights | Whether the excommunication of an Honorable US War Veteran (and paying customer) by Fallen Federal Judges and unpatriotic Corporatistas for the evil C… | |
| 22-391 | Shahrouz Jahanshahi v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, et al. | California | 2022-10-26 | Denied | Response Waived | anti-SLAPP anti-slapp-statute appellate-procedure appellate-review case-transfer civil-procedure constitutional-law due-process ghostwriting judicial-procedure standing | Does California anti-SLAPP statute protect illegal activity? |
| 22-5687 | Michael G. Peters v. Mital K. Brammbatt | Fifth Circuit | 2022-09-28 | Dismissed | IFP | anti-slapp civil-rights cruel-unusual-punishment due-process judicial-conspiracy prison-mail-misappropriations racketeering rico rico-anti-slapp selective-prosecution standing | Whether the lower courts erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging a decade-long cover-up of political, judicial, and corporate racketeering cr… |
| 22-5246 | Bruce H. Singman v. IMDb.com, Inc. | California | 2022-08-01 | Denied | IFP | anti-SLAPP commercial-speech damaging-information defamation digital-media edit-system first-amendment freedom-of-speech internet-movie-database internet-publication tortious-interference wrongful-information | Did the Supreme Court of California error in failing to note that the Respondent's IMDb.com i.e., Internet Movie Data Base had an EDIT System providin… |
| 22-67 | Robert "Bob" King v. Specialty Hospital of Washington, et al. | District of Columbia | 2022-07-26 | Denied | anti-SLAPP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process expedited-hearing free-speech fundamental-rights pro-se-litigant procedural-rights special-motion-to-dismiss standing | Whether the mandatory expedited hearing on a special motion to dismiss under an anti-SLAPP law is necessary to prevent a deprivation of fundamental pr… | |
| 21-6866 | Richard R. Lawless v. Kat Mulder, et al. | District of Columbia | 2022-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | anti-slapp anti-slapp-statute civil-procedure civil-rights court-discovery discovery due-process jury-trial prejudice-dismissal seventh-amendment state-appellate-court | Can a State court deny access to a jury trial and court discovery through the inappropriate application on an AntiSLAPP statute? |
| 21-832 | Terrance Walker v. Intelli-Heart Services, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-12-06 | Denied | anti-slapp circuit-split civil-procedure federal-procedure federal-rules necessary-and-proper ninth-circuit rules-of-civil-procedure shady-grove | Is applying state law Anti-Slapp procedure in Federal Court consistent with Shady Grove? | |
| 20-965 | Balubhai Patel, et al. v. Manuel Chavez | California | 2021-01-22 | Denied | 42-usc-1983 anti-SLAPP anti-SLAPP-statute attorney-fees civil-rights civil-rights-statute federal-preemption fee-shifting preemption supremacy-clause | Whether California's anti-SLAPP statute's mandatory attorney fee shifting provisions in favor of a prevailing defendant conflicts with, and stands as … | |
| 20-734 | Brett Emmett Lloyd v. John Gerhard, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-11-27 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1983 anti-SLAPP civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-rights due-process false-police-report favorable-termination malicious-prosecution standing summons | Was Petitioner unfairly denied redress for a malicious prosecution when the District Court of Oregon granted Defendants' Motion to Dismiss for a failu… |
| 20-693 | Mikhail Fridman, et al. v. Orbis Business Intelligence Limited, et al. | District of Columbia | 2020-11-19 | Denied | Response Waived | actual-malice anti-slapp anti-slapp-act defamation due-process herbert-v-lando public-figure | Whether the application of the D.C. Anti-SLAPP Act to dismiss a public figure's defamation claim violates due-process, actual-malice, herbert-v-lando |
| 20-606 | Tatyana E. Drevaleva v. California Department of Industrial Relations | California | 2020-11-05 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | administrative-law anti-SLAPP civil-procedure civil-rights first-amendment free-speech governmental-immunity labor-code labor-law libel | Does Governmental Entity the California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) have a right to file a Special Motion to Strike my Complaint (an anti… |
| 20-602 | Stephanie Clifford, aka Stormy Daniels v. Donald J. Trump | Ninth Circuit | 2020-11-05 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | anti-slapp anti-slapp-statute circuit-split civil-procedure diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine federal-rules-of-civil-procedure procedural-law shady-grove | Does the Texas Citizens' Participation Act apply in federal court diversity jurisdiction cases under Erie R.R. Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938)? |
| 20-5810 | Ruth Torres v. Marie Diaz, et al. | Texas | 2020-09-25 | Denied | IFP | abuse-of-process anti-SLAPP constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-review whistleblower whistleblower-retaliation | Is a state anti-SLAPP restriction seeking dismissal within 60 days of the filing of claims (ignoring later legal actions) unconstitutional when the cl… |
| 20-5331 | Michael A. Bruzzone v. Intel Corporation, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-procedure anti-SLAPP antitrust civil-rights confrontation confrontation-clause due-process equal-protection retaliation | Whether District and Appellant Courts can deny a citizen's 14th Amendment guarantees of due process, confrontation, and equal protection in a 15 U.S.C… |
| 19-1272 | Thomas Christopher Retzlaff v. Jason Lee Van Dyke | Fifth Circuit | 2020-05-08 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | anti-slapp civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine federal-courts federal-procedure free-speech litigation-strategy | Whether state anti-SLAPP statutes apply in federal diversity cases |
| 19-722 | Larry J. Hudack v. La Cresta Property Owners Association | California | 2019-12-06 | Denied | Response Waived | anti-slapp anti-SLAPP-statute civil-procedure collateral-attack due-process federal-statute first-amendment jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect right-to-petition standing state-statute void-judgment void-judgments | Is a collateral attack on void judgments, on its face, an assault on the constitutional Right to Petition under any state or federal statute? |
| 19-6631 | Tatyana E. Drevaleva v. Appellate Division of the Superior Court of California, San Mateo County, et al. | California | 2019-11-14 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | anti-SLAPP civil-procedure civil-rights first-amendment free-speech limited-civil-case standing tenant-rights unlawful-detainer | Can a Tenant who was being evicted by a Landlord for expressing a First Amendment right for a free speech file an anti-SLAPP Motion pursuant to the Ca… |
| 19-6544 | Bradly M. Cunningham v. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-11-07 | Dismissed | Response WaivedIFP | actual-knowledge anti-SLAPP civil-rights civil-rights-violation defamation defamation-statute discovery due-process false-light media-liability state-actor-doctrine statute-of-limitations | Whether the Court can stay this matter until final resolution of a related and dependent money damages case, or order the petitioner be allowed to obt… |
| 19-69 | Diane B. Weissburg v. Los Angeles Unified School District, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-12 | Denied | Response Waived | anti-slapp civil-rights due-process educational-rights iep-meetings official-proceedings privacy-law public-interest recording recording-consent recording-rights retaliation | Are Individual Educational Placement (IEP) meetings Official Proceedings? |
| 19-20 | William Andreoli, et al. v. Youngevity International Corporation, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-02 | Denied | anti-SLAPP appellate-jurisdiction circuit-split civil-procedure collateral-order-doctrine final-judgment final-judgment-rule interlocutory-appeal slapp standing | Whether federal courts of appeals lack interlocutory appellate jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and the collateral order doctrine to review the den… | |
| 18-1175 | Colin Shillinglaw v. Baylor University, et al. | Texas | 2019-03-11 | Denied | Response Waived | anti-SLAPP anti-slapp-statute arbitration arbitration-agreement arbitration-agreements civil-procedure federal-arbitration-act federal-arbitration-act-preemption preemption res-judicata state-court-procedure | Whether the FAA preempts a conflicting state anti-SLAPP statute and precludes a state court from refusing either to compel arbitration or to stay liti… |
| 18-6907 | Robert J. Kulick v. Leisure Village Association, Inc. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-12-04 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | anti-SLAPP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights defamation due-process equal-protection freedom-of-speech home-owners-association legal-procedure rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing | Is 9th Cir's Case#18-56000, Dismissal, 11-29-18, null & void because of defective Defendant-Appellee, when correct was Leisure Village Association, In… |
| 18-696 | Center for Medical Progress, et al. v. Planned Parenthood Federation of America, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-11-27 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | anti-SLAPP circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-procedure federalism first-amendment free-speech heightened-pleading investigative-journalism protected-speech | Should the Ninth Circuit have applied the anti-SLAPP statutes? |
| 18-582 | Stephen Yagman v. Michael J. Colello | Ninth Circuit | 2018-11-05 | Denied | anti-SLAPP civil-procedure federal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-civil-procedure iqbal rules-enabling-act supreme-court-precedent twombly | Whether a state anti-SLAPP statute can be used to dismiss a claim in federal court when its application is contrary to the Rules Enabling Act, Federal… | |
| 18-89 | AmeriCulture, Inc., et al. v. Los Lobos Renewable Power, LLC, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2018-07-18 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | anti-SLAPP attorneys-fees circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal-motion expedited-motions federal-court federal-procedure fee-shifting free-speech public-participation | Whether state anti-SLAPP fee-shifting provisions apply in federal court |