California Court of Appeal

In their lawsuit, allege civil rights violations, Civ. Code section 52.1 (Bane Act), negligence, false/wrongful arrest, defamation, and loss of consortium, against the State and City and County of San Diego, because of defendants' causing plaintiff to register as a sex offender through threats of enforcement, maintaining him on California's sex offender registry, and publicly disseminating his name as a registered sex offender, including via the Megan's Law Web site, the trial court's order granting defendants' special motion to strike under the anti-SLAPP statute, Code of Civ. Proc. section 425.16, is affirmed where: 1) plaintiffs' causes of action arose from protected activity under section 425.16; and 2) plaintiffs did not show a probability of prevailing on their causes of action.

Appellate Information

• Published 2017/02/15

Judges

• BENKE

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel