April 28, 2014 Via Email and U.S. Mail Skeaveney@Pasenate.Com
Correspondence from: Marc J. Randazza, Esq. mjr@randazza.com Reply to Las Vegas Office MARC J. RANDAZZA via Email or Fax Licensed to practice in Massachusetts California Nevada April 28, 2014 Arizona Florida Via Email and U.S. Mail RONALD D. GREEN Licensed to practice in skeaveney@pasenate.com Nevada JASON A. FISCHER Senator Lawrence Farnese, Jr. Licensed to practice in Florida Pennsylvania State Senate California U.S. Patent Office 1802 S. Broad Street Philadelphia, PA 19145 J. MALCOLM DEVOY Licensed to practice in Nevada Re: Senate Bill 1095 CHRISTOPHER A. HARVEY Licensed to practice in California Dear Senator Farnese: A. JORDAN RUSHIE Licensed to practice in Pennsylvania I was recently able to attend the Pennsylvania Legislature’s meeting in New Jersey Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on April 24, 2014, and provide testimony regarding D. GILL SPERLEIN your proposed anti-SLAPP law, SB 1095. SLAPPs, or Strategic Lawsuits Against Licensed to practice in California Public Participation, are a problem I have seen not only in Pennsylvania, but throughout the nation. I practice First Amendment law nationally, and my firm ALEX J. SHEPARD Licensed to practice in and I have been active in defending SLAPP suits filed in Pennsylvania, California California, New York, Florida, Arizona, and Nevada. We use anti-SLAPP statutes when they are available, and found them to be to the decisive benefit of defendants in spurious defamation actions. www.randazza.com I have attached my curriculum vitae to expand upon my qualifications for discussing Pennsylvania’s proposed anti-SLAPP law. In the course of my firm’s Philadelphia work, we have seen numerous anti-SLAPP statutes that work exceptionally well 2424 East York Street Suite 316 and should be models for other states.
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