Comment by shrubby
13 hours ago
SLAPP as in Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation.
To keep the dissenting voices quiet and to scare other groups from protesting.
Modus operandi for many industries.
13 hours ago
SLAPP as in Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation.
To keep the dissenting voices quiet and to scare other groups from protesting.
Modus operandi for many industries.
A SLAPP is a frivolous lawsuit that the plaintiff has no chance of winning. In this case they won a judgment, so it's the opposite of that.
That's not technically what a SLAPP is. The reason it is called a strategic lawsuit is frequently that it will cost the defendant so much to defend themselves that they opt to settle rather than risk that cost. Even if the plaintiff is unlikely to win, it is rarely a "no chance" situation, and with judge/district shopping, it is quite possible for large corporations to move further from "no chance" than an individual or non-profit might.
That is objectively not what happened here though, the point of SLAPP is that it's a frivolous suit that's meant to just exhaust the resources of the "dissenting voices". They won this suit and honestly it's not hard to believe that Greenpeace is guilty to some degree even if proving it is.
> the point of SLAPP is that it's a frivolous suit
The point is to shut people up. Lawyers don't like filing literally frivolous suits, that type of activity gets you disbarred.
In theory, yes. But does that actually happen IRL? I've never heard of a lawyer getting disbarred for the quality of suits he or she is filing.
Many years ago in Northern CA we had a lawyer that was basically going around filing suits against everyone she came in contact with as a way to pay the bills. She was eventually declared a "vexatious litigant" and had to get a judge's permission before she could sue anyone in the future, but they didn't disbar her.
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Well it is very hard to believe they're guilty, at least to me. Too bad the news report does not provide any actual information about the case and the evidence (actual journalism beyond clickbaity headlines).
In environmental circles, Greenpeace is very well-known to be traitors working with big corporations to launder their image. They're opposed to sabotage and revolutionary tactics. Their activities are mostly fundraising and legal proceedings, and on the rare instance they perform so-called civil disobedience (such as deploying banners on nuclear plants), it is in very orderly fashion that doesn't provide much economic harm.
As a left-wing environmentalist, i wish such a strong voice as Greenpeace was capable to incite people to rise against the greedy corporations destroying our planet. I just don't see that happening, neither here in France nor in the USA.
> i wish such a strong voice as Greenpeace was capable to incite people to rise against the greedy corporations destroying our planet.
Posted from your iphone while driving to the gas station to fill up? Where did you fly to for your last vacation?
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> SLAPP as in Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation.
Unfortunately North Dakota is one of the minority of states without anti-SLAPP laws.
https://www.the-case.eu/latest/number-of-slapps-in-europe-co...