U.S. Supreme Court,
Civil Litigation
Oct. 14, 2020
Cert denial leaves anti-SLAPP federal circuit split in place
On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari in what could have been a pivotal case about whether anti-SLAPP belongs in federal courts.
William Slomanson
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Thomas Jefferson School of Law
Email: bills@tjsl.edu
William Slomanson is also the author of California Procedure in a Nutshell (5th ed. 2014).
Special motions to strike are a useful vehicle for weeding out meritless attempts to suppress speech through litigation, aka Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation, or SLAPPS. In California, "there has been a disturbing increase in lawsuits brought primarily to chill the valid exercise of the constitutional rights of freedom of speech and petition for the redress of grievances." Cal. Code Civ. Proc. Section 425.16(a). The Legislature thus prescribed the grant...
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