Does the anti-SLAPP statute protect free speech rights?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Newport Harbor Ventures, LLC v. Morris Cerullo World Evangelism, 212 Cal.Rptr.3d 216, 6 Cal.App.5th 1207 (Cal. App. 2016):
defendant's free speech rights"]; Kunysz v. Sandler (2007) 146 Cal.App.4th 1540, 1543, 53 Cal.Rptr.3d 779 ["the purpose of the anti-SLAPP statute is to dismiss meritless lawsuits designed to chill the defendant's free speech rights at the earliest stage of the case"].)
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