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· 4/3/2008

Palazzo v. Alves

Citations

  • 944 A.2d 144
  • 36 Media L. Rep. (BNA) 1856
  • 2008 R.I. LEXIS 33
  • 2008 WL 877980

How courts have described this case

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  • anti-SLAPP statutes ‘‘pit two sets of fundamental constitutional rights against each other: (1) defendants’ rights of free speech and petition and (2
  • where facts of subsequent SLAAP suit were intertwined with earlier lawsuit for slander and libel, the SLAPP claim was should have been brought as a counterclaim
  • anti-SLAPP statutes ‘‘ ‘pit two sets of fundamental constitutional rights against each other: (1) defendants’ rights of free speech and petition and (2) plaintiffs’ rights of access to the judicial system and rights to non-falsely maligned reputations’ ’’
  • “[T]he doctrine of res judicata extinguishes a party’s claims even if that party is ‘prepared in a second action to present evidence or grounds or theories of the case not presented * * * in the first action, or to seek remedies or forms of relief not demanded in that action.’”

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Judges: Williams, Goldberg, Suttell, Robinson, Flaherty

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