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Dan Laidman

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On October 9, 2025, an en banc Ninth Circuit panel unanimously held that the denial of a special motion to strike under California's anti-SLAPP statute is no longer immediately appealable in the Ninth Circuit under the...more In an important victory for government transparency, the California Supreme Court has strictly limited the costs that public agencies can demand from members of the public and the media who request public records in an...more San Francisco police made national news May 10 when officers burst into a journalist’s house using sledgehammers and kept him handcuffed for hours while they ransacked his home and office. It was a shocking attack on the free...more A California city cannot hold one of its citizens liable for copyright infringement for using clips of city council meetings in his critical YouTube videos, a federal judge has ruled. The August 20, 2015 order in City of...more