Quoted: “If it’s a case in which the defendant can make the argument that this was a lawsuit that’s being pursued in order to discourage people and intimidate people, and in fact, cost people a ruinous amount of financial damage, then that suit can be dismissed very, very early in the game,” said Robert Drechsel, a professor emeritus of journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “In many cases, plaintiffs aren’t really suing to win, but they win by suing.”
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