Tasmanian logging company Gunns has told shareholders that it plans to spend $A2 million pursuing SLAPPs against a group of environmentalists, known as the Gunns 20. So far the court has thrown out all three of the company's statements of claim and ordered it to pay the defendants legal costs.

Residents of Arizona, Nevada and Ohio will soon enjoy smokefree air in public places and most workplaces, thanks to voter-approved ballot measures. The new smokefree laws, combined with other statewide laws and hundreds of local laws already in place around the U.S., mean that smokefree workplaces will now be the norm for the majority of the U.S. population.

When KFC crowed on October 30, 2006, that it was planning to ban transfats in its U.S. fried chicken, the company had a PR machine behind it ready to score a news hit in one of the nation's fast food capitals, New York City.