ABBAS v. FOREIGN POLICY GROUP, LLC

No. 13-7171.

783 F.3d 1328 (2015)

Yasser ABBAS, Appellant v. FOREIGN POLICY GROUP, LLC and Jonathan Schanzer, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided April 24, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis G. Adolfsen argued the cause for appellant. With him on the briefs was S. Dwight Stephens.

Kevin T. Baine argued the cause for appellees. With him on the brief were Adam R. Tarosky,   James M. McDonald,   Nathan E. Siegel,   Seth D. Berlin, and Shaina J. Ward.

Irvin B. Nathan, Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia, Ariel B. Levinson-Waldman, Senior Counsel to the Attorney General, Todd S. Kim, Solicitor General, Loren L. AliKhan, Deputy Solicitor General, and Rebecca P. Kohn, Assistant Attorney General, were on the brief for the District of Columbia as amicus curiae in support of the District of Columbia Anti-SLAPP Act's applicability in federal diversity cases.

Laura R. Handman,   Alison Schary,   Thomas R. Burke,   Richard A. Bernstein,   Kevin M. Goldberg,   Karen Kaiser,   Jonathan Bloom,   Randy L. Shapiro,   Jonathan D. Hart,   Mark H. Jackson,   Jason P. Conti,   Jacob P. Goldstein,   Oscar Grut,   David Giles,   Susan E. Seager,   Barbara W. Wall,   Jonathan Donnellan,   Kristina Findikyan,   Karole Morgan-Prager,   Juan Cornejo,   Sandra S. Baron,   Kathleen A. Hirce,   Charles D. Tobin,   Mickey H. Osterreicher,   Greg Lewis,   Denise Leary,   Ashley Messenger,   Susan Weiner,   David E. McCraw,   Mark H. Jackson,   Kurt Wimmer,   Richard J. Tofel,   Bruce D. Brown,   Gregg P. Leslie,   Gail Gove,   Bruce W. Sanford,   Laurie A. Babinski,   Karen H. Flax,   Julie Xanders,   Ed Lazarus,   John B. Kennedy, and James A. McLauglin were on the brief for amici curiae Media Organizations in support of appellees.

Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge KAVANAUGH.


Yasser Abbas is the son of current Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas. In 2012, the Foreign Policy Group published an article on its website about Yasser Abbas and his brother Tarek. At the outset, the article asked two questions: "Are the sons of the Palestinian president growing rich off their father's system?" and "Have...

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