Law Practice
Aug. 6, 2002
SLAPP Ruling Curtails Malicious Prosecution
LOS ANGELES - In a ruling that could curtail malicious prosecution suits drastically, the state's high court has held that a trial judge's denial - under the anti-SLAPP statute - of a motion to strike in an underlying case bars malicious prosecution because it gives probable cause for the original case.
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