Chevalier v. Animal Rehabilitation Center, Inc.

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• finding that McDonald, “rather than the Noerr-Pennington doctrine, [is] 8 instructive” on the issue of alleged defamation that occurred during the petitioning and in 9 publications inducing the petitioning
• relying on McDonald to conclude that, because the Noerr-Pennington doctrine relies on the First Amendment's right to petition, that clause \poses no barrier\ to a defamation claim \so long as the added safeguard of actual malice is in place\
• declining to extend Noerr-Pennington immunity to defamation claims

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