L.G. v. M.B.

*214Defendant M.B. appeals from the trial court's denial of her motion to dismiss under the "anti-SLAPP" statute ( Code Civ. Proc., § 425.16 ).1 Plaintiff and respondent L.G. is the former nanny for M.B. and M.B.'s ex-husband, S.B.2 Respondent filed this action against Appellant for defamation, invasion of privacy, and intentional infliction of emotional distress based upon statements that Appellant made about her in a declaration filed in support of Appellant's request for a domestic violence restraining order in her dissolution action.

Under Civil Code section 47, subdivision (b), statements…