Is litigation privilege relevant to anti-SLAPP analysis?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Laue v. Ortiz, H043206, H043713, H044063 (Cal. App. 2019):
The litigation privilege is "relevant to the second step in the anti-SLAPP analysis in that it may present a substantive defense [that] a plaintiff must overcome to demonstrate a probability of prevailing. (See, e.g., Kashian v. Harriman (2002) 98 Cal.App.4th 892, 926-927 [where plaintiff's defamation action was barred by Civil Code
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