PPP Policy Director, Evan Mascagni, recently wrote a blog post for the California Anti-SLAPP Project on Devin Nunes.

'Turnbull' and 'Newport Harbor' confirm that the days of basing an anti-SLAPP motion on a "gravamen" test or on conclusory assertions of protected activity are behind us.

A lawyer said he will move to dismiss the extortion suit filed by an NFL player under California’s anti-SLAPP statute and litigation privilege.

The California Supreme Court passed on actress Olivia de Havilland’s publicity rights challenge to an FX television show.

A woman said she was let go from ATTN: after protesting a racial slur from one of the news site's investors. A judge ruled that she is likely to prevail in her lawsuit.

An appeals court in California tossed a lawsuit filed against the San Francisco Chronicle by a now-disbarred lawyer who claimed the newspaper defamed him. The appeals court affirmed dismissal based on California’s anti-SLAPP law.

Attorneys for 20th Century Fox asked a Los Angeles Superior Court judge to throw out a countersuit that Netflix filed against Fox. Fox said the countersuit should be thrown out because it concerned protected speech under the California anti-SLAPP statute, but the judge rejected the motion. Then a three-judge panel of the 2nd District Court of Appeal upheld the lower court’s ruling, deciding that the Netflix countersuit was not barred by the anti-SLAPP statute.

A California Appeals Court affirmed a trial court’s denial of an anti-SLAPP motion that defendants filed in a lawsuit in which plaintiffs claimed that public school officials took retaliatory actions against a former board member by disseminating confidential medical information and making claims of improper activity against her.
 

Addressing a potential conflict between California’s anti-SLAPP law and the federal procedural rules, the Ninth Circuit last month specified what analysis courts should use when faced with a motion to dismiss a “Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation.”

Attorneys representing investors in a basketball league filed an anti-SLAPP motion in a defamation case that the league, O’shea Jackson (aka Ice Cube) and Jeff Kwatinetz brought against the investors.

A federal judge in Hawaii refused to dismiss a producer’s libel lawsuit against a woman who accused him of rape. However, the judge agreed that the case should be governed by the California anti-SLAPP statute, though the producer’s attorneys had argued that the case should be governed by Hawaii’s anti-SLAPP law.

PPP Board member Jeremy Rosen recently co-wrote an article with Felix Shafir for Law360 on the complexities of California's anti-SLAPP statute. Click through for the article.

Mike Masnick with Techdirt explains the recent decision to throw out the Greenpeace RICO case on anti-SLAPP grounds in California. Read more here.

The Northern California Record reports:

"A San Mateo County Superior Court ruled in favor of social media giant Facebook in an appeal brought against the company's anti-strategic lawsuit against public participation (anti-SLAPP) motion as well as to strike the original complaint and award the company its attorney’s fees for the appeal."

Sarah Bro with the National Law Review writes:

"In an action involving the popular film series The Purge, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed a district court denial of the defendants’ anti-SLAPP motion, holding that the plaintiff’s breach of implied-in-fact contract claim under state law did not arise from protected free speech activity."

PPP Board President Mark Goldowitz recently blogged about a new California Supreme Court decision that reins in abuse of the anti-SLAPP law by government entities.

PPP Board Member Professor Eric Goldman recently posted on his Technology & Marketing Law Blog about the amicus briefs recently filed in an important First Amendment case before the California Supreme Court.

PPP Board Vice President Jeremy Rosen recently co-authored an article on California's anti-SLAPP law for California Lawyer.  The article provides an overview of California's anti-SLAPP law and discusses the evolution of the state’s anti-SLAPP jurisprudence.