Legal Opinion
Dc Comics v. Pacific Pictures Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided January 10, 2013No. 11-56934PublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:
This case arises from the district court’s denial of defendants’ motion, pursuant to California’s anti-SLAPP statute, to strike certain of DC Comics’ state law claims. In Batzel v. Smith, 333 F.3d 1018 (9th Cir. 2003), we held that the collateral order doctrine permits a party to take an interlocutory appeal of an order denying such a motion. We must determine whether our decision in Batzel remains good law after the Supreme Court’s intervening decision in Mohawk Industries v. Carpenter, 558 U.S. 100, 130 S.Ct. 599, 175 L.Ed.2d 458 (2009). For the reasons…
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