The Illinois Appellate Court affirmed BHH’s anti-SLAPP victory on behalf of anonymous political speakers who published political flyers criticizing former McHenry County Board candidates Orville Brettman and Ersel Schuster. Victories under Illinois’ anti-SLAPP statute, the Citizen Pariticpation Act (CPA), have […]
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BHH Hosts A Conversation With Acclaimed Chicago Author Rebecca Makkai And Chicago Reader Publisher Tracy Baim
June 2020
On June 4, 2020 BHH hosted a live virtual discussion with acclaimed author Rebecca Makkai about her novel The Great Believers, a powerful story about the AIDS epidemic in Chicago told through the lives of fictional art lovers, journalists and […]
Brendan Healey to Moderate Panel at Yale Law Conference
May 2020
BHH’s Brendan Healey will participate in Yale Law School’s fifth annual conference on Commercial Speech and the First Amendment on June 2, 2020. Brendan will be co-moderating, with Jonah Knobler from Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler, a panel entitled “Milk […]
Baron Harris Healey Hosts Remote CARES Act Presentations For Media Organizations
May 2020
As media companies and other businesses cope with the fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic, the $2 trillion CARES Act has provided an important (albeit confusing and difficult to navigate) lifeline. The CARES Act was signed into law on March 27, […]
BHH Column On Political Speech Litigation Featured In Wisconsin Freedom Of Information Council Newsletter
May 2020
BHH’s Natalie Harris is the featured author of the Wisconsin Freedom Of Information Council’s (WFOIC) monthly “Your Right To Know” column. WFOIC is a non-profit organization established by journalists in Wisconsin over forty years ago to protect First Amendment rights. […]