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BENOIT v. FREDERICKSON

SJC-10187

454 Mass. 148 (2009)

NEIL BENOIT v. AMANDA FREDERICKSON & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Worcester.

June 25, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Krista Green Pratt (C.J. Eaton with her) for the defendants.

Stephen J. Gordon for the plaintiff.

Richard J. Yurko & Sarah R. Wunsch, for American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., IRELAND, SPINA, COWIN, CORDY, BOTSFORD, & GANTS, JJ.

IRELAND, J.

We granted the defendants' application for further appellate review to consider whether a Superior Court judge erred in denying the defendants' special motion to dismiss, pursuant to G. L. c. 231, § 59H ("anti-SLAPP" statute).2 Because we conclude that the defendants are entitled to interlocutory appellate review, and that the motion judge erred in denying their special motion to dismiss, we reverse the denial and remand...

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