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What do you do when your right to free speech is
infringed upon? Well if you are Jackie Marati, and you want to make your
opposition to the slot machines Proposal B on the ballot in the upcoming
election, you fight back against the corporations. Guam Greyhound (the
company seeking legalization of slot machines at the Guam Greyhound
racetrack) filed a lawsuit against Marati that she believes is their ploy to
keep her outspoken opposition to the slot machines quiet until after the
November 7th elections.
But it appears that Guam Greyhound didn’t anticipate Marati’s reaction to
the lawsuit. Rather than take the lawsuit lying down, Marati fought back
using Guam’s anti-SLAPP statute as grounds for continuing her anti-slot
machines message. The anti-SLAPP statute boils down to this: a person can
not be silenced for voicing their opinion. So even though Guam Greyhound
doesn’t like what she has to say about the slot machines the law protects
Marati’s right to free speech. So now, considering they actually gave Marati
a reason to fight back, all they managed to do was give her access to a
larger portion of the voting public to spread her anti-slot machines
message.
Anita Arriola, Marati’s lawyer has no doubts as to why Guam Greyhound filed
the lawsuit against the known slot machines opposer. “Make no mistake about
it, John Baldwin and the Guam Greyhound's suit against Marati is nothing
more than an attempt to shut her up." slot machines
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