<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Did they? As it stands, Techdirt will not collect any fees and its SLAPP suit has been dropped. <br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 19, 2019, at 4:17 AM, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <<a href="mailto:el@lisse.na" class="">el@lisse.na</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div dir="auto" class="">that is a bit selective.</div>
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<div dir="auto" class="">They did win the first round.</div>
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<div dir="auto" class="">But as protected speech. An Anti-SLAPP win would have allowed them to recover costs, which in US litigation is notably rare.</div>
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<div name="messageReplySection" class="">On 19 May 2019, 06:54 +0200, Richard Bennett <<a href="mailto:richard@bennett.com" class="">richard@bennett.com</a>>, wrote:<br class="">
<blockquote type="cite" class="spark_quote" style="margin: 5px 5px; padding-left: 10px; border-left: thin solid #1abc9c;">Techdirt already lost its anti-SLAPP suit against Ayyadurai. Given Masnick’s penchant for hyperbole, that wasn’t surprising.
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