; (6) the threat of financial liability, litigation costs, destruction of one’s business, loss of one’s home, and other personal losses from groundless lawsuits seriously impacts government, interstate commerce, and individual rights by significantly chilling public participation in government, public issues, and in voluntary service; (7) SLAPPs are an abuse of the judicial process that waste judicial resources and clog the already over-burdened court dockets; (8) while some courts and State legislatures have recognized and discouraged SLAPPs, protection against SLAPPs has not been uniform or comprehensive