Is this true?
Heard through the grapevine a Portalnd judge, sitting for Brownhill, dismissed James "Ace" Neikes lawsuit against Clatsop County Sheriff, Tom Bergin and Clatsop County Monday afternoon and awarded attorneys fees to Sheriff Bergin, citing and executing
a law called S.L.A.P.P. which Wikipedia defines as; A Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation ("SLAPP") is a lawsuit or a threat of lawsuit that is intended to intimidate and silence critics by burdening them with the cost of a legal defense until they abandon their criticism or opposition. Winning the lawsuit is not necessarily the intent of the person filing the SLAPP. The plaintiff's goals are accomplished if the defendant succumbs to fear, intimidation, mounting legal costs or simple exhaustion and abandons the criticism. A SLAPP may also intimidate others from participating in the debate.
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