5/27 – The Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed summary judgment for the firm’s client, Newsweek, in The Satanic Temple’s libel suit arising from an article reporting accusations by a former member against the organization, holding that New York’s anti-SLAPP law applied and that plaintiff failed to satisfy its burden of demonstrating “actual malice.” The court also affirmed dismissal of reporter Julia Duin for lack of personal jurisdiction, finding that her work for Newsweek, a New York-based publication, was not enough where she researched and wrote the article outside the state.