The New York Times sued an anti-immigration author for the cost of defending itself against defamation in what appears to be one of the first cases brought under a recently expanded “anti-SLAPP” law to protect critical speech.
The company is seeking unspecified fees spent fending off a 2020 lawsuit by Peter Brimelow, according to the company’s lawsuit, which was filed on Tuesday.
Brimelow had sued the company over five articles published between January 2019 and May 2020 that described him as being “white nationalist” and his VDARE.com website as being “animated by race hatred.”