Davis v. Cox

¶1 This case requires us to decide the contitutionality of the Washington Act Limiting Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (anti-SLAPP statute). Laws of 2010, ch. 118 (codified at RCW 4.24.525). In the statute’s prefatory findings, the legislature explained it was “concerned about lawsuits brought primarily to chill the valid exercise of the constitutional rights of freedom of speech and petition for the redress of grievances,” id. § l(l)(a), and so the statute’s purpose was to establish “an efficient, uniform, and comprehensive method for speedy adjudication” of such lawsuits,…