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• The Anti-SLAPP Statute: A New Defense For Developers? ( May 2004 )
  Daniel P. Dain of Goodwin Procter LLP

  A little noticed Superior Court decision in December may have broad implications for developers of real estate. In dismissing a lawsuit filed by members of the community against a real estate developer in <i>Pierce v. Mulhern</i>, the Superior Court recognized apparently for the first time in Massachusetts that real estate developers are afforded the protections of the Massachusetts anti-SLAPP ("strategic litigation against public participation") statute.