A California federal judge threw out eight of nine claims (pdf) in Chevron’s malicious prosecution case against a Massachusetts lawyer on Wednesday.

But while she granted most of the lawyer’s anti-SLAPP motion, U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken left the door open a crack for Chevron to try to prove one claim that Cristobal Bonifaz maliciously sued the energy giant.

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