Legal Opinion
Dillon v. Seattle Deposition Reporters, LLC
Court of Appeals of Washington
Decided January 21, 2014No. 69300-0-IPublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDwyer, J.
¶1 — Washington’s anti-SLAPP1 statute protects persons who engage in “action [s] involving public participation and petition” from having to defend against a claim based on those actions.2 The recording of telephone conversations is not such an action. This is so even when such recording is designed to gather evidence for a lawsuit between private parties. The anti-SLAPP statute does not operate to transform unprotected activity into protected activity simply because it is undertaken during the course of a lawsuit.
¶2 In the matter before us, Jason Dillon filed suit against Seattle Deposition…
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