People countersuing corporations using SLAPPS against them

By Tim Jones
Chicago Tribune via
Myrtle Beach Online
Sun, Dec. 25, 2005

ST. LOUIS - A year ago Tom and Barbi Diehl were sweating a $5 million libel and slander suit, filed against them by a company that objected to Tom Diehl's public opposition to a proposed garbage holding pen in his suburban St. Louis neighborhood.

The lawsuit was tossed out by Missouri courts this year and now the Diehls are suing the garbage company for damages, arguing that the suit against them was malicious. . . Read more
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