California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Laker v. Bd. of Trs. of the Cal. State Univ., 244 Cal.Rptr.3d 238, 32 Cal.App.5th 745 (Cal. App. 2019):
If the challenged action falls within the litigation privilege, the trial court should grant an anti-SLAPP motion to strike. (See Rusheen v. Cohen (2006) 37 Cal.4th 1048, 1065, 39 Cal.Rptr.3d 516, 128 P.3d 713.) " A plaintiff cannot establish a probability of prevailing if the litigation privilege precludes the defendants liability on the claim. [Citation.] The litigation privilege is defined in Civil Code section 47, subdivision (b) ( section 47(b) ), and precludes liability arising from a publication or broadcast made in a judicial proceeding or other official proceeding. [Citation.]" ( Bergstein v. Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP (2015) 236 Cal.App.4th 793, 814, 187 Cal.Rptr.3d 36.)
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