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MAXWELL v. AIG DOMESTIC CLAIMS, INC.

No. 07-P-1858.

72 Mass. App. Ct. 685 (2008)

JESSE MAXWELL v. AIG DOMESTIC CLAIMS, INC., & another.

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

September 23, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Myles W. McDonough (Nicholas W. Schieffelin with him) for the defendants.

Chester L. Tennyson, Jr., for the plaintiff.

Present: LENK, BERRY, & WOLOHOJIAN, JJ.

WOLOHOJIAN, J.

The defendants appeal from the denial of their special motion to dismiss made pursuant to G. L. c. 231, § 59H, the so-called anti-SLAPP statute.2 "Strategic litigation" is indeed implicated in this case, although not as the Legislature intended, nor as the defendants argue. The statute was enacted in order to protect ordinary citizens from meritless litigation brought by large private interests for the purpose of tamping...

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