Anti-SLAPP law protects free press in Louisiana
A Louisiana newspaper won a defamation suit that a jet fuel supplier brought against it for reporting that the company provided contaminated fuel to military jets. The supplier failed to show the newspaper was negligent in reporting the story. –DB The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press April 16, 2009 By Samantha Fredrickson A defamation lawsuit brought by a Louisiana jet fuel supplier against a local newspaper was thrown out by a federal appellate