Litigation
Apr. 25, 2013
Further evidence of the need for a federal anti-SLAPP law
A recent case shows the need for federal anti-SLAPP legislation, as it exposes one of the biggest loopholes to the current state anti-SLAPP law framework. By Mark Goldowitz and Evan Mascagni
In 1999, the Monterey Plaza Hotel sued the Hotel Employees Local 483 after a member of the union made comments about firings conducted by the hotel. The union successfully invoked California's anti-SLAPP statute to quickly dismiss the case in Monterey Plaza Hotel v. Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees Local 483, 69 Cal. App. 4th 1057 (1999). Fourteen years later, California's anti-SLAPP law i...
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