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BRIGGS v. EDEN COUNCIL FOR HOPE & OPPORTUNITY

No. S062156.

81 Cal.Rptr.2d 471 (1999)

19 Cal.4th 1106

969 P.2d 564

Dan BRIGGS et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. EDEN COUNCIL FOR HOPE AND OPPORTUNITY, Defendant and Respondent.

Supreme Court of California.

January 21, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Knox, Anderson & Blake, Anderson & Blake and Kevin Anderson, San Jose, for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Brancart & Brancart, Christopher Brancart, Elizabeth Brancart, Pescadero; Mark Goldowitz, Oakland, John C. Barker and Elizabeth Bader, San Francisco, for Defendant and Respondent.

Levy, Ram & Olson and Karl Olson, San Francisco, for California Newspaper Publishers Association, et al. as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent.

James D. Smith, Berkeley, for Fair Housing Organizations as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent.

Catherine I. Hanson and Astrid G. Meghrigian, San Francisco, for California Medical Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent.

Julia Mandeville Damasco, San Francisco, for City of Hayward, City of Pleasanton, City of Santa Clara and City and County of San Francisco as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent.

Hagenbaugh & Murphy, Daniel A. Leipold and Cathy L. Shipe, Orange, for Cult Awareness Network, Inc., and F.A.C.T.Net, Inc., as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Respondent.

WERDEGAR, J.

Must a defendant, moving specially under Code of Civil Procedure section 425.16 (hereafter section 425.16 or the anti-SLAPP1 statute) to strike a cause of action arising from a statement made before, or in connection with an issue under consideration by, a legally authorized official proceeding, demonstrate separately that the statement concerned an issue of public significance? In accordance with the plain language of the...

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