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Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP) AlterLinks Topic Index Blocking Public Participation The Use of Strategic Litigation to Silence Political Expression Resource Type: Book Published: 2014 Examines the different types of litigation and causes of action that frequently form the basis of SLAPPs (Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation), and how these lawsuits transform political disputes into legal cases, thereby blocking political engagement. British cyber-activist sued by Thai fruit company Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Reporters Without Borders calls on the Thai pineapple processing company Natural Fruit and the Thai judicial authorities to abandon the three defamation cases still pending against British human rights defender Andy Hall Court Throws out Energy Transfer's 'Racketeering' Claims Against Dakota Access Pipeline Opponents Resource Type: Article Published: 2019 An energy company that tried to bring RICO charges against Greenpeace and other people opposing their pipeline have had their case thrown out. If boycotts could change the system they'd be illegal Resource Type: Article Published: 1996 A ruling by the Ontario Court of Appeal says that boycotting by a grassroots group Friends of the Lubicon Lake Cree Nation of Daishowa paper products was illegal because it resulted in economic harm to the corporation. This is an example of a growing number of "SLAPP suits" Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation brought by corporations against activists. Trump Attorney Sues Greenpeace Over Dakota Access in $300 Million Racketeering Case Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Lawyers for Energy Transfer Partners, which include Donald Trump's go-to attorneys, have filed a $300 million lawsuit against Greenpeace and other environmental groups for their activism against the long-contested North Dakota-to-Illinois project.

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