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• W100650756 abstract "It a rare privilege to be read and engaged by such thoughtful and insightful commentators as Washington Law Review has assembled. It exhilarating to participate in a conversation of this range and intensity. I am very grateful to Washington Law Review, Ronald K.L. Collins and David Skover, and University of Washington School of Law, for making this symposium possible. As I read contributions to this symposium, I am put in mind of Oliver Wendell Holmes' famous injunction that [w]e must think things not words, or at least we must constantly our words into facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to real and true.1 Although lawyers love words and language, the real justification of a rule of law, Holmes argued, is that it helps to bring about a social end which we desire.2 Holmes' advice was to pay close attention to whether our legal words in fact function to serve our social ends. Nowhere disjunction between words and ends more apparent than in First Amendment jurisprudence. We suffer from First Amendment hypertrophy. Doctrine proliferates endlessly and meaninglessly. Around every corner yet another confusing First Amendment test. We barely ever stop to ask what social ends are actually served by this barrage of inconsistent and abstract doctrine. We rarely take time to translate our [First Amendment] words into facts for which they stand. The illuminating contribution of Bruce E.H. Johnson and Sarah K. Duran3 seems fortunately almost immune from this affliction. Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs) are theoretically interesting precisely because they illustrate disjunction between legal words and social ends. Plaintiffs bring SLAPP suits to enforce rights created by substantive legal doctrine. Substantive legal doctrine, especially when subject to constitutional standards that determine whether particular speech acts should receive First Amendment immunity, ought accurately to reflect our values. At first blush, therefore, SLAPP suits ought not to be problematic; defendants should prevail whenever constitutional standards provide that their speech deserves constitutional protection. This way of thinking, however, does not pay sufficient attention to how legal standards actually function. It fails to appreciate transaction costs associated with litigation enforcing substantive doctrine. Defending even an unmeritorious suit can be costly and timeconsuming, and this expense will likely discourage otherwise protected participation in public discussion. The anti-SLAPP statutes Johnson and Duran discuss are designed to address and nullify such transaction costs. They not only shift attorneys' fees, but they also create pathways for prompt and inexpensive resolution of SLAPP suits.4 Johnson and Duran invite us to theorize behavioral effects of enforcing substantive First Amendment standards; they direct our attention to reality that underlies doctrine. The idea that substantive First Amendment rules should take account of transaction costs of litigating First Amendment rights a deep insight. It ultimately derives from legal realism inspired by Holmes. Johnson and Duran are concerned with how costs of enforcing First Amendment doctrine affect participation in public discourse. The first decision of U.S. Supreme Court systematically to reason in this way was New York Times Co. v. Sullivan,5 which fashioned actual rule precisely to nullify transaction costs of libel litigation.6 It designed malice rule to anticipate and nullify effect of ordinary and otherwise constitutionally defensible substantive rules of defamation liability. The anti-SLAPP statutes so helpfully analyzed by Johnson and Duran are legislative interventions created to accomplish precisely same result.7 Anti-SLAPP statutes anticipate and nullify chilling effects produced by First Amendment litigation. …" @default.
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