Fox Searchlight Pictures, Inc. v. Paladino

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• holding that this argument “confuses the threshold question of whether the SLAPP statute applies with the question” under the second prong of the analysis
• threshold question of whether anti-SLAPP stat- ute applies is distinct from question of whether plaintiff has established probability of success
• “[A] plaintiff cannot frustrate the purposes of the SLAPP statute through a pleading tactic of combining allegations of protected and nonprotected activity under the label of one ‘cause of action.”’
• \fundamental fairness to the plaintiff requires the plaintiff be allowed to make such a limited disclosure of the former employer's secrets to her own attorneys to the extent necessary to prepare a claim for wrongful discharge\

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