Carpenter v. Payne

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• \The merits of [plaintiff's] claims should play no part in the first step of the anti-SLAPP analysis.\
• ‘‘[t]he merits of [the plaintiff’s] claims should play no part in the first step of the anti-SLAPP analysis’’
• \The merits of [plaintiff's] claims should play no part in the first step of the anti-SLAPP analysis.\
• “case law supports the general proposition that a public entity and its employees may (in 25 appropriate circumstances) be held liable for slander”
• “case law supports the general proposition that a public entity 19 and its employees may (in appropriate circumstances) be held liable for slander”
• “D’Alessio is suing for relief based on the oral statements, not 5 challenging the underlying acts (the refusal of the City and its employees to issue licenses).”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).