California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Kattuah v. Firm, B269560 (Cal. App. 2017):
The anti-SLAPP statute includes, among the other kinds of activities it protects, "any written or oral statement or writing made before a legislative, executive, or judicial proceeding, or any other official proceeding authorized by law." ( 425.16, subd. (e)(1).) This includes statements made in, or in connection with, litigation, and "[c]ourts have taken a fairly expansive view of what constitutes litigation-related activity for purposes of section 425.16." (Drell v. Cohen (2014) 232 Cal.App.4th 24, 29 (Drell).) Thus,
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