Should Shellee Hale Be Protected Under Press Sheild?

[pornlaw]

Actually, in most states (26) this would be a very risky proposition for NATS and Co. In California we have Anti-SLAPP laws that would allow her to hit NATS with a counter claim, even before she has to answer their complaint indicating that their lawsuit is an attempt to prevent her from exercising her constitutionally protected free speech rights.

If she wins, they pay her attorney's fees. It also stays the underlaying action until the Judge assigned rules on the Anti-SLAPP motion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strateg..._participation

[softball]

New Jersey courts have not yet applied the malicious use of process claim to SLAPPs brought against bloggers or non-traditional journalists. Given the language the courts have used in describing the threat of SLAPPs to citizens' rights of petition and free speech, however, it seems entirely possible that the courts would be willing to extend the claim to these types of SLAPPs.

Could be a precedent....

http://www.citmedialaw.org/legal-gui...law-new-jersey