Legal Opinion
Braun v. Chronicle Publishing Co.
California Court of Appeal
Decided February 18, 1997No. A073121PublishedCited by 79 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
POCHÉ, J.
This appeal concerns the scope of two, sometimes interrelated, statutes: the anti-SLAPP 1 statute, Code of Civil Procedure section 425.16 (section 425.16), and the reporter’s privilege found at Civil Code section 47, subdivision (d). The triggering event in this litigation was the publication of five news reports stemming from allegations of illegal and improper management of the Center for Pre-Hospital Research and Training (CPRT) at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF). In particular, the news reports described an investigative audit carried out by the State…
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