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From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.trump,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican
Subject: Re: And To Think The MAGAs Complain About "Lawfare".....
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2025 11:30:07 -0700
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider

On 2025-07-27 07:02, AlleyCat wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 19 Jul 2025 16:17:05 -0400,  -hh says...
> 
>> "Florida does have an anti-SLAPP law. Florida Statute §768.295, enacted
>> in 2000 and expanded in 2015, protects individuals from lawsuits brought
>> against them for exercising their right to free speech on public issues,
>> as well as their rights to assemble, petition the government, and
>> instruct representatives."
> 
> Does it say anything about libel?
> 
> Defamation?
> 
> Slander?
You should really do your homework, Phil?

'(1) It is the intent of the Legislature to protect the right in Florida 
to exercise the rights of free speech in connection with public issues, 
and the rights to peacefully assemble, instruct representatives, and 
petition for redress of grievances before the various governmental 
entities of this state as protected by the First Amendment to the United 
States Constitution and s. 5, Art. I of the State Constitution. It is 
the public policy of this state that a person or governmental entity not 
engage in SLAPP suits because such actions are inconsistent with the 
right of persons to exercise such constitutional rights of free speech 
in connection with public issues. Therefore, the Legislature finds and 
declares that prohibiting such lawsuits as herein described will 
preserve this fundamental state policy, preserve the constitutional 
rights of persons in Florida, and assure the continuation of 
representative government in this state. It is the intent of the 
Legislature that such lawsuits be expeditiously disposed of by the courts.'

'(a) “Free speech in connection with public issues” means any written or 
oral statement that is protected under applicable law and is made before 
a governmental entity in connection with an issue under consideration or 
review by a governmental entity, or is made in or in connection with a 
play, movie, television program, radio broadcast, audiovisual work, 
book, magazine article, musical work, news report, or other similar work.'

So, yeah.

It does.