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Civil Litigation,
California Supreme Court,
Appellate Practice

May 22, 2017

Parsing protected activity

In its latest anti-SLAPP case, the state high court recently wrestled with whether the statute should apply to all government actions "arising from" protected communications.

Sarah Hofstadter

Of Counsel
California Appellate Law Group LLP

96 Jessie Street
San Francisco , California 94105

Phone: (415) 649-6700

Email: sarah@calapplaw.com

Stanford Univ Law School

Sarah Hofstadter is of counsel with the California Appellate Law Group LLP, an appellate boutique based in San Francisco. She spent more than a dozen years as a research and staff attorney for jurists on the California Courts of Appeal and the 9th Circuit. Find out more about Sarah and the California Appellate Law Group LLP at www.calapplaw.com

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Parsing protected activity
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APPELLATE ZEALOTS

Decided only weeks ago by the California Supreme Court, Park v. Board of Trustees of California State Univ., 2017 DJDAR 4232 (May 4, 2017), may be the most important case to define the way California's anti-SLAPP statute applies to government entities since its enactment in 1992. In Park, the court unanimously, definitively and elegantly answered a complex question that reaches the core of the anti-SLAPP sta...

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