CROSS v. FACEBOOK, INC.

Nos. A148623, A149140.

14 Cal.App.5th 190 (2017)

JASON CROSS et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. FACEBOOK, INC., Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division Two.

August 9, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Punzalan Law, Mark L. Punzalan ; Cole Law Group and Todd G. Cole for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Perkins Coie, Michael B. Garfinkel , Eric David Miller , Julie Erin Schwartz , Lauren B. Cohen ; Durie Tangri and Sonal Naresh Mehta for Defendant and Appellant.

Public Citizen Litigation Group, Paul Alan Levy ; Zeitgeist Law and Marcia Clare Hofmann for Public Citizen, Inc., as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

Electronic Frontier Foundation and Daniel Kelly Nazer for The Electronic Frontier Foundation, Engine, Eric Goldman, Github, Inc., Medium, The Organization for Transformative Works, Rebecca Tushnet, Snap, Inc., Wikimedia Foundation and Yelp, Inc., as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, Ari Holzblatt , Patrick J. Carome , Emily J. Barnet and Mark Donnell Flanagan for Airbnb, Inc., IAC/ InterActiveCorp., Google, Inc., LinkedIn Corp., Reddit, Inc., and Twitter, Inc., as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

Randazza Legal Group, Marc John Randazza and Alex James Shepard for Consumer Opinion LLC and AVVO, Inc., as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.


OPINION

We here address appeals filed by both sides from an order on an anti-SLAPP motion, which order granted the motion as to three causes of action and denied it as to three others.

Plaintiffs are Jason Cross, also known as Mikel Knight, a country rap artist, and two entities affiliated with him...

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