First Amendment attorney Marc Randazza of Las Vegas has scored a particularly important win in a case involving Steven Novella, MD and Edward Tobinick, MD. Dr. Tobinick sued Dr. Novella and Yale University in Florida, not for defamation, but for claims of false advertising and trademark infringement.

First, Randazza won an anti-SLAPP motion. Despite being a California plantiff, Tobinick filed suit in Florida. He may have hoped that California’s anti-SLAPP law wouldn’t follow him there. He would have been wrong. From the order (emphasis mine): Continue reading