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CARLSBAD
A Superior Court last week dismissed the restraining order a Carlsbad councilwoman obtained in September against two of her constituents whom she claimed harassed her on Facebook and other online forums.
Councilwoman Cori Schumacher obtained the order against three people, Anthony Bona, Noel Breen and Larry Posner, although Posner was released from the case in October. The three men had criticized Schumacher for her positions on a number of community issues and posted comments that she considered threatening.
“The issue here is essentially whether Bona and Breen were engaged in a course of protected political commentary (legitimate conduct) or made unprotected “true threats” constituting harassment,” wrote Judge Cynthia A. Freeland in her tentative ruling released Thursday. “The only reasonable interpretation of these posts is social commentary, not personal threats.”
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The University of Oregon’s Public Interest Environmental Law Conference is under way, though this year the annual confab is going virtual. Among other events, the Civil Liberties Defense Center’s Executive Director Lauren Regan (pictured) and other environmental lawyers will discuss Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SLAPP) lawsuits. These are lawsuits used by corporate lawyers on behalf of extractive industries, according to CLDC, and the event will cover how SLAPP lawsuits are used to target climate activists, immobilize public interest attorneys and avoid accountability. For example, in a legal fight between the city of Weed and Roseburg Forest Products over water rights, the timber company sued nine citizens who were raising awareness about the case. CLDC called the lawsuit against the citizens a SLAPP and are now working with the residents to sue the law firm that named the residents in the case, using California’s SLAPPback law. At the event, Regan and other