Legal Opinion
Laker v. Bd. of Trs. of the Cal. State Univ.
California Court of Appeal, 5th District
Decided February 28, 2019No. H044836PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDanner, J.
*753Dr. Jason Laker (Laker) sued the Board of Trustees of the California State University (University) and Mary McVey for defamation and retaliation arising from a series of internal investigations conducted by the *754University.1 The defendants filed an anti-SLAPP motion2 to strike the complaint under Code of Civil Procedure section 425.16,3 which the trial court denied on the ground that the defendants failed to show that Laker's defamation and retaliation claims arose from any activity *247protected by section 425.16. For the reasons explained below, we agree with the University and McVey that the…
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