California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Crossroads Investors, L.P. v. Fed. Nat'l Mortg. Ass'n, 201 Cal.Rptr.3d 84, 246 Cal.App.4th 529 (Cal. App. 2016):
City of Cotati v. Cashman (2002) 29 Cal.4th 69, 78, 124 Cal.Rptr.2d 519, 52 P.3d 695, original italics.) An "act underlying the plaintiff's cause of action must itself have been an act in furtherance of the right of petition or free speech." (Ibid . original italics.) Courts must look to "the act underlying the cause of action, not the gist of the cause of action." (Wallace v. McCubbin (2011) 196 Cal.App.4th 1169, 1190, 128 Cal.Rptr.3d 205.)
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