Weisz v. Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that Noerr-Pennington doctrine protects “litigation activities brought by government officials to advance public goals”
• describing the analysis to determine whether a defendant’s conduct is immunized under the Noerr-Pennington doctrine, including whether the sham exception applies
• “Assuming Defendants are state actors, our precedent 6 compels the conclusion that their activities were protected by the Petition Clause.”
• “B&G has failed to show that any of the sham exceptions 11 could apply based on the allegations in the complaint.”
• expressly foreclosing Noerr-Pennington immunity where “the statute clearly provides otherwise”
• dismissal based on the Noerr-Pennington doctrine

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).