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NADER v. MAINE DEMOCRATIC PARTY

Docket: Was-10-678.

41 A.3d 551 (2012)

2012 ME 57

Ralph NADER et al. v. The MAINE DEMOCRATIC PARTY et al.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: April 19, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold Burbank, II, Esq. , Canton, Connecticut, Lynne A. Williams, Esq. , Bar Harbor, and Oliver B. Hall, Esq. (orally), Washington, District of Columbia, for appellants Ralph Nader, Christopher Droznick, Nancy Oden, and Rosemary Whittaker.

Stephen E.F. Langsdorf, Esq. (orally), Preti, Flaherty, Beliveau & Pachios, LLP, Augusta, for appellees The Maine Democratic Party, The Democratic National Committee, Kerry-Edwards 2004, Inc., Dorothy Melanson, Terry McAuliffe.

Peter J. Brann, Esq. , and Stacy O. Stitham, Esq. (orally), Brann & Isaacson, Lewiston, for appellees The Ballot Project, Inc., and Toby Moffett.

Concurrence: SILVER, and JABAR, JJ.

ALEXANDER, J.

[¶ 1] In this appeal we consider whether the Maine anti-SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) statute, 14 M.R.S. § 556 (2011),1 may be invoked to deprive a minor-party candidate of his day in court on a suit in which he alleges that he was subject to abuses of process, damaging to his candidacy, by organizations and individuals who conspired to take actions to prevent or complicate his inclusion...

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