“A SLAPP statute that depends on a finding that the suit was brought in bad faith is nearly worthless,” writes Paul Alan Levy of a Maryland enactment that was not enough to save the publisher of the “Mortgage Lender Implode-o-Meter” blog. [Consumer Law & Policy, more, earlier here and here, h/t @petewarden]

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