Newspaper recoups legal fees from lawyer who withdrew defamation suit
A lawyer who had filed a defamation claim against a newspaper for comments on a message board on its website found himself saddled with the newspaper’s legal fees after the newspaper filed a motion under the anti-Slapp statute designed to protect free speech from meritless legal threats. -DB Chico Enterprise Record April 24, 2009 CHICO — An attorney has been ordered to pay the Enterprise-Record more than $65,000 in attorneys’ fees and costs after he