In Re Asbestos Litigation, 01-4147 (2002)

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• noting ‘‘the anti-SLAPP statute’s central purpose of preventing SLAPPs by ending them early and without great cost to the SLAPP target’’ (inter- nal quotation marks omitted)
• resolving anti-SLAPP motion despite lacking personal jurisdiction over a 27 defendant
• “[W]e have repeatedly affirmed the applicability of California’s anti-SLAPP statute in 27 diversity cases.”
• “[W]e have repeatedly affirmed the applicability of California’s anti-SLAPP statute in 7 diversity cases.”
• “A defendant that successfully moves to strike a plaintiff’s cause of action, 20 whether on merits or nonmerits grounds, has ‘prevailed’ on the motion, and therefore is 21 entitled to attorney’s fees and costs.”

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