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BAKER v. PARSONS

434 Mass. 543 (2001)

JOHN W. BAKER v. KATHERINE C. PARSONS & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

July 12, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert H. D'Auria for the plaintiff.

Jacqueline L. Allen for the defendants.

The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:

Thomas F. Reilly, Attorney General & Dorothy Anderson, Assistant Attorney General, for the Commonwealth.

Patricia A. DeJuneas & Sarah R. Wunsch for the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts.

Present: (SITTING AT NORTHAMPTON): MARSHALL, C.J., GREANEY, SPINA, COWIN, SOSMAN, & CORDY, JJ.

CORDY, J.

The plaintiff, a property owner in Plymouth, appeals from the decision of a Superior Court judge granting the defendants' special motion to dismiss his lawsuit, pursuant to G. L. c. 231, § 59H, commonly known as the anti-SLAPP statute.2 He argues that his complaint is not subject to a special motion to dismiss because it was not based solely on the defendants' petitioning activities, and, in the alternative, that he met...

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