Does the anti-SLAPP statute need to define "an issue of public interest"?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Sacks v. Haslet, D072372 (Cal. App. 2018):
The anti-SLAPP statute does not define "an issue of public interest." ( 425.16, subd. (e)(3).) This phrase is "inherently amorphous" and does not lend itself "to a precise, all-encompassing definition." (Cross v. Cooper (2011) 197 Cal.App.4th 357, 371.) But courts have recognized that " 'the question whether something is an issue of
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