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Law Practice

Mar. 20, 2007

Allow Anti-SLAPP Motions in Arbitration

Letter to the Editor - J. Joseph Wall Jr. - In response to Eric van Ginkel's article "Asserting an Anti-SLAPP Petition in Arbitration" (Daily Journal, March 7), it is important to recognize that the California Legislature targeted those actions which were brought primarily to chill the valid exercise of the valid exercise of the constitutional rights of freedom of speech and petition.

In response to Eric van Ginkel's article "Asserting an Anti-SLAPP Petition in Arbitration" (Daily Journal, March 7), it is important to recognize that the California Legislature targeted those actions which were brought primarily to chill the valid exercise of the constitutional rights of freedom of speech and petition. In its determination that the anti-SLAPP statute did not apply to arbitration claims, the 6th District Court of Appeal in Sheppard v. Lightpost Museum Fund,<...

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