California Court of Appeal

In plaintiff's action alleging sexual harassment and related torts against defendant employer and coworker, the trial court did not err in denying, in part, plaintiff's anti-SLAPP special motion to strike defendant-coworkers' cross-complaint for defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress, where: 1) each of the causes of action in the cross-complaint combines allegations of conduct that is protected by the anti-SLAPP statute with conduct that is not; and 2) in such a case, the trial court may strike the allegations in the cross-complaint attacking the protected activity while allowing the unprotected theories to remain, which is what the trial court did in this case.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/06/2013
• Published 09/06/2013

Judges

• EPSTEIN

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel