sheilaoco.bsky.social
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@sheilaoco.bsky.socialA WIN for free speech! We successfully represented Cranston tenants and tenant organizers who were being sued by their landlord, Jeffrey Butler, for defamation based on the lyrics of background song in a TikTok video that was posted by the tenants union briefly in 2024.
Show Post15 months after passage, the Rhode Island Freedom to Read Act has yet to be implemented by the McKee Administration “Authors, educators, librarians, students, and readers across Rhode Island worked together with legislators to get this law, and we deserve to have it implemented.”
Show PostThe judge agreed with our arguments that the TikTok didn't defame Butler, and ended this case for all but one of the tenants on another claim. It seemed clear to us that this defamation claim against the tenant organizers had no merit, and we're pleased their free speech rights have been protected!
Show PostHarrison Tuttle talks about battling homelessness at the First Baptist Church in America “Over the last couple of years, the cost of living has become a fight for survival,” writes Tuttle. “This struggle comes with the weight of lacking basic necessities.”
Show PostACLU of RI: Tenant organizers’ free speech rights vindicated as judge rejects landlord’s defamation claim “The judge’s ruling is a decisive victory that the court saw through Butler’s attempt to silence tenant advocacy under the guise of defamation,” said ACLU of RI executive director Steven Brown.
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