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Strategic lawsuits against public participation (also known as “SLAPP” suits) are lawsuits intended to censor, intimidate and silence critics by burdening them with the cost of legal defense until they abandon their criticism or opposition. 

735 ILCS 110/15 provides a mechanism through which a party to litigation can move to dismiss a lawsuit it feels is a SLAPP. The aforementioned statute and the test for determining whether a particular lawsuit is a SLAPP was the central focus of Glorioso v. Sun-Times Media Holdings, LLC, et al., 2024 IL 130137. The plaintiff in the case, a former employee of the Illinois

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