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Getting Tough on "Lawfare"
by IPT News https://www.legal-project.org/333/getting-tough-on-lawfare Excerpt: Citing a host of legal and governmental efforts in the U.S. and abroad aimed at stifling free speech, two opponents of "lawfare" say it's time to start punching back. In a column in Tuesday's Washington Times, Brooke Goldstein and Aaron Eitan Meyer cite examples of lawfare, or the use of civil litigation, to try to defeat your opponents and enemies, including a United Nations effort to criminalize statements considered defamatory toward Islam and ongoing lawsuits of a similar vein. The two were part of a conference on the issue organized by the Legal Project at the Middle East Forum, the Federalist Society, the Center for National Security Law and the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression. If nothing slows the lawfare phenomenon down, Goldstein and Meyer advocate returning the favor: Read the complete original version of this item... receive the latest by email: subscribe to the legal project's free mailing list Note: The content of external articles does not necessarily reflect the views of The Legal Project. |
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