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-Dragonfly is a Nevada citizen, and Prowse and Prowse Publications LLC are pleaded as Nevada citizens as well.<ref name="complaint" /> With both sides in the same state there is no complete diversity, so the case cannot be removed to federal court and stays in state court, where Nevada applies the full anti-SLAPP statute, including the automatic discovery stay and the preponderance standard, without the federal-court complications that have tangled anti-SLAPP motions in the Ninth Circuit.
+{{ombox|type=notice|text='''Userspace legal-research note by [[User:Louis|Louis Rossmann]]. Not legal advice.''' This is personal legal research, not a neutral wiki article and not a substitute for a licensed Nevada attorney.}}
+''This is research, not legal advice, and not a substitute for a licensed Nevada attorney. Louis Rossmann is not a lawyer and is not Will Prowse's counsel. The single most important step below is retaining Nevada anti-SLAPP counsel before the 60-day special-motion clock runs.''
+On June 1, 2026, Dragonfly Energy Corp., the maker of Battle Born Batteries, sued DIY-solar reviewer William "Will" Prowse and his company Prowse Publications LLC in Nevada state court, on four claims arising from a series of YouTube videos about the batteries.<ref name="complaint">Complaint, ''Dragonfly Energy Corp. v. William Errol Prowse IV and Prowse Publications LLC'', No. CV26-01604 (Nev. 2d Jud. Dist. Ct., Washoe County, filed June 1, 2026). The plaintiff is the operating company Dragonfly Energy Corp.; its parent, Dragonfly Energy Holdings Corp., is the SEC filer (Nasdaq: DFLI).</ref><ref name="8k">{{Cite web |url=https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1847986/000149315226026754/form8-k.htm |title=Form 8-K, Item 8.01 (Dragonfly Energy Holdings Corp.) |publisher=U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission |date=2026-06-02 |access-date=2026-06-06}}</ref> Dragonfly asks the court not only for damages but for an order barring Prowse's future statements about the batteries and requiring him to take down the videos already published. The strongest answer is procedural and fast: Nevada has one of the country's most defendant-friendly anti-SLAPP statutes, a product-safety review of a mass-market consumer battery sits close to the center of what that statute protects, and the Nevada Supreme Court has confirmed that the statute reaches every claim built on the protected speech, not only the libel count.<ref name="panik">''Panik v. TMM, Inc.'', 139 Nev. Adv. Op. 53 (2023) (anti-SLAPP protections are not limited to particular claims; the court evaluates the statements underlying the claim, not the label the plaintiff gives it). [https://law.justia.com/cases/nevada/supreme-court/2023/84679.html Opinion via Justia].</ref> A special motion to dismiss freezes discovery, forces Dragonfly to put up real proof early, and, if it succeeds, makes Dragonfly pay Prowse's legal fees plus up to $10,000.