Grifols is stirred against the request of Gotham City Research to apply the ‘Anti-Slapp’ law (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) in the law York The firm and the General Industrial PARTNERS (GIP) fund alleged in January that the quoted had undertaken the judicial route in a kind of Lawfare to drowned them financially with the expenses of the procedure. Now, the Catalan company rebates its arguments and argues that this rule is not even in force in the court in which the conflict is settled.
In a document presented on February 21, Grifols and his subsidiary Grifols Shared Services North America They argue that demand does not seek to intimidate or censor Gotham, but tries to hold the analysis house for disseminating false information and enrich themselves with it Through GIP, what they call a trash and cash system. In addition, they wear the open criminal process at the National Court as an argument of the existence of a possible crime.
The quoted argues that the Anti-Slapping norm- which originally seeks that the plaintiff takes care of all the fees- is not applicable in federal courts- such as the one who judges the case- when entering into conflict with the so-called rule 11, which already It is designed to punish demands without foundation.
However, in the event that the law became applicable, this would not immediately imply the request for legal fees. And for the New York Anti-Slapp law to apply, all demand should be a base. Therefore, if at least one of Grifols’s complaints was valid, Gotham’s motion would be discarded.
Obviously, the company argues that its demand does have a substantial basis as demonstrates, he argues, the existence of an investigation at the National Court. He also says that Gotham has not submitted any proof that the lawsuit lacks foundation and that it is based solely on WECK’s statements of Cyrusfirst GIP executive.
The company’s theory is none other than the defendants disseminated false information with the purpose of manipulating the market. And refers to expressions available in the original Gotham report of January 2024 to identify these alleged falsehoods.
Gotham’s claim
Grifols’s writing comes in response to the requests of the firm directed by Daniel Yu. In January, Gotham went to the Court of the Southern District of New York to present an ‘Anti-Slapp’ motion, a standard designed to protect people and organizations against intimidating lawsuits. The allegation joined the dismissal requests made weeks ago, when he defended that the “supposedly defamatory” statements contained in his reports were “protected opinions.”
The objective of this rule is to recover the fees of their lawyers and other legal costs of the casean extreme that enables this type of regulation in order for the defendants to have more facilities to defend themselves. The other faculty of these regulations, which has peculiarities in the United States depending on the state in which it is presented, is to achieve a faster dismissal.
Anti-Slapp regulations have been used in the past by other ‘Short Sellers’ and investors. This is the case of Andrew Left, by Citron Research, which in 2005 was accused by GTX Global Corp of defamatory accusations. Other files involve journalists or activists. Gotham and Gip, where appropriate, are supported in different cases, such as the lawsuit faced by businessman Sheldon Adelson against the National Democratic National Council. They also collect the demand that the journalist Jessica Tarlov, of Fox News.
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