A Superior Court judge refused to use the DC anti-SLAPP statute to stop an arbitration, nothing that the dispute was subject to Delaware law (pursuant to a choice-of-law provision in the arbitration agreement) and Delaware’s much narrower anti-SLAPP statute did not reach the conduct at issue.
Read MoreIn a rare case involving resort to a Delaware statute's legislative history, Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster held that Delaware's anti-SLAPP statute is to be construed narrowly so as to be applicable only to public petition and participation in land use proceedings, and is not a broad legal protection against defamation claims.
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