Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 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

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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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