Focus (Forum & Focus)
Dec. 10, 2008
SLAPPed Down
California courts of appeal have allowed government entities and their employees to use the anti-SLAPP statute to strike lawsuits challenging their official acts, writes Robert N. Tremain. - Focus Column
FOCUS COLUMN
By Robert N. Treiman California courts of appeal have allowed government entities and their employees to use the anti-SLAPP statute, Code of Civil Procedure Section 425.16, to strike lawsuits challenging their official acts. Courts have held that government entities and employees exercise First Amendment rights (the anti-SLAPP statute applies to claims arising from acts in furtherance of a defendant's exercise of First Amendment right...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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