WILSON v. CABLE NEWS NETWORK, INC.

No. S239686.

7 Cal.5th 871 (2019)

STANLEY WILSON, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. CABLE NEWS NETWORK, INC., et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Supreme Court of California.

July 22, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Law Offices of Lisa L. Maki, Lisa L. Maki , Jennifer Ostertag ; Shegerian & Associates, Jill P. McDonnell and Carney R. Shegerian for Plaintiff and Appellant.

FEM Law Group and F. Edie Mermelstein for Consumer Attorneys of California as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.

Briggs Law Corporation, Cory J. Briggs and Anthony N. Kim for California Taxpayers Action Network as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Appellant.

Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp, Adam Levin , Aaron M. Wais , Jolene Konnersman and Christopher A. Elliott for Defendants and Respondents.

Davis Wright Tremaine, Kelli L. Sager , Rochelle Wilcox and Dan Laidman for Los Angeles Times Communications LLP, CBS Corporation, NBCUniversal Media, LLC, American Broadcasting Companies, Inc., Fox Networks Group, Inc., California News Publishers Association and First Amendment Coalition as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.

Horvitz & Levy, Jeremy B. Rosen , Felix Shafir and Ryan C. Chapman for California Hospital Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.


OPINION

Code of Civil Procedure section 425.16 (section 425.16), commonly known as the anti-SLAPP statute, allows defendants to request early judicial screening of legal claims targeting free speech or petitioning activities. We consider two questions concerning the application of...

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