In a unanimous ruling Tuesday, California's 1st District Court of Appeal refused defendant Austin Miles' attempt to label Pledge of Allegiance challenger Michael Newdow's libel suit a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation and to get it thrown out. In the Internet article at the heart of the case, Miles, a self-described "interdenominational chaplain," quoted a statement he alleged Newdow made before the 9th Circuit, and accused Newdow of lying under oath.
October 26, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Another California court has refused to stop the famous Pledge of Allegiance challenger Michael Newdow from suing over the unkind things a stranger wrote about him on the Internet.
In an unpublished and unanimous ruling Tuesday, the 1st District Court of Appeal refused defendant Austin Miles’ attempt to label Newdow’s libel suit a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation and to get it thrown out. The ruling upheld a Superior Court decision out of Contra Costa County.
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