Kerr & Wagstaffe wins anti-SLAPP motion in federal court


In a lawsuit brought against 13 different individuals and entities, including the City and County of San Francisco and the San Francisco Police Department, the firm secured a quick dismissal for its two individual clients after winning a Special Motion to Strike pursuant to California’s anti-SLAPP statute.   The anti-SLAPP statute is designed to protect citizens in the exercise of their rights of petition and free speech, by precluding meritless lawsuits which are brought to chill the exercise of those fundamental rights.  The firm successfully argued that the  lawsuit arose out of constitutionally protected activity, the defendants’ prior testimony, and as such, the case against must be dismissed.

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