{"id":12668,"date":"2022-06-23T12:45:01","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T16:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/?p=12668"},"modified":"2025-02-07T15:49:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T20:49:12","slug":"alliance-supports-robust-uniform-anti-slapp-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/alliance-supports-robust-uniform-anti-slapp-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Alliance Supports Robust, Uniform Anti-SLAPP Law"},"content":{"rendered":"

On June 23, the Alliance joined a coalition letter<\/span><\/a> supporting the Uniform Public Expression Protection Act (UPEPA<\/span><\/a><\/span>)<\/span><\/span>\u2014the Uniform Law Commission\u2019s model anti-SLAPP law. The letter explains that \u201cAnti-SLAPP laws protect the public from frivolous lawsuits that arise from speech on matters of public concern…The stronger the statute, the more deterrence there is against filing SLAPP lawsuits.\u201d The letter also discusses why UPEPA broad protections, fee provision, and immediate right of appeal are necessary to deter harmful SLAPP suits. The Alliance commends the Uniform Law Commission\u2019s work in creating this strong model law and encourage broad enactment at the state and federal level. The Alliance continues to support<\/span><\/a> strong anti-SLAPP laws to protect news publishers. Read more<\/span><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On June 23, the Alliance joined a coalition letter supporting the Uniform Public Expression Protection Act (UPEPA)\u2014the Uniform Law Commission\u2019s model anti-SLAPP law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,206],"tags":[716],"class_list":["post-12668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advocacy","category-free-press","tag-tag-two"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}