What constitutes a "protected activity" under the anti-SLAPP law?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from Heebner v. Prappas, B248851 (Cal. App. 2014):

under consideration or review by . . . a judicial body." (Code Civ. Proc., 425.16, subd. (e)(1).) Under the anti-SLAPP law, oral and written statements that are "intimately intertwined with, and preparatory to, the filing of judicial proceedings" may constitute protected activity. (Cabral v. Martin (2009) 177 Cal.App.4th 471, 482.)

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