List of Cases: The Moving Party in an Anti-SLAPP Motion
Author | David A. Potts; Erin Stoik |
Pages | 473-475 |
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The Moving Party in an Anti-SLAPP Motion
Defendants in anti-SLAPP proceedings cover a wide range including persons,
corporations, media outlets, and political and environmental activists.
The range of defendants, as seen at the time of writing, is sketched below.
THE MEDIA
Subway Franchise Systems of Canada, Inc v Canadian Broadcasting Corpora-
tion, 2021 ONCA 26; Subway v CBC, 2019 ONSC 6758 at paras 17–18
Kam v CBC, 2021 ONSC 1304
Levant v Demelle, 2021 ONSC 1074 at paras 29–33
Rebel News v Al Jazeera Media, 2021 ONSC 1035 at paras 23–27
Bullard v Rogers Media Inc, 2020 ONSC 3084 at para 58
Bondfield Construction Company Limited v The Globe and Mail Inc, 2019
ONCA 166 at para 7; Bondfield Construction Co v The Globe and Mail,
2018 ONSC 1880 at para 34
Montour v Beacon Publishing Inc, 2019 ONCA 246 at para 12; arming Mon-
tour v Beacon Publishing Inc, 2017 ONSC 4735 at para 18; leave to appeal
dismissed 2019 CanLII 94477 (SCC)
Armstrong v Corus Entertainment Inc, 2018 ONCA 689 at para 15
POLITICIANS AND POLITICAL ACTIVISTS
BW (Brad) Blair v Premier Doug Ford, 2020 ONSC 7100 at paras 18–21
Di Franco v Bueckert, 2020 ONSC 1954 at para 40
Amorosi v Barker, 2019 ONSC 4717 at para 15
Miceli v Swinton, 2019 ONSC 2926 at para 13
Armstrong v Corus Entertainment Inc, 2018 ONCA 689 at para 15
Papa v Zeppieri, 2018 ONSC 7068 at paras 28–38, esp para 31
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