Worthington v. City of Bremerton

¶1 When the city of Bremerton, Kitsap County, and other defendants filed a motion to dismiss a civil suit filed by pro se litigant John Worthington, he responded by filing a special motion to strike under the Washington Act Limiting Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (anti-SLAPP statute), RCW 4.24.525(4). The trial court denied the motion, and in accordance with RCW 4.24.525(6)(b), it imposed financial sanctions on Worth-ington on the basis that his anti-SLAPP motion was frivolous. Although the Court of Appeals acknowledged that this court invalidated the anti-SLAPP statute in…