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"A news organization’s hiring or firing of employees—like virtually everything a news organization does—facilitates the organization’s speech to some degree," wrote Justice Leondra Kruger. "But it does not follow that everything the news organization does qualifies as protected activity under the anti-SLAPP statute."
July 22, 2019 at 06:20 PM
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The original version of this story was published on The Recorder
The California Supreme Court on Monday largely turned back an attempt by cable news outlet CNN to wield the state’s anti-SLAPP statute to knock out a former newsroom employees’ discrimination lawsuit.
The high court’s ruling partially overturned a lower appellate court decision that found the statute—which shields free speech-related activity from abusive lawsuits—couldn’t be raised as a defense in cases of alleged employment discrimination.
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