California Supreme Court: No Anti-SLAPP Motion Where Protected Activity Tangential in Stadium Construction Case

By MetNews   The state Supreme Court yesterday declared that an action against the city of Carson can proceed after being dismissed as a SLAPP because the plaintiff’s allegations that the city breached an exclusive agency contract for negotiating the construction of an NFL stadium did not arise from protected activity.   Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar wrote the opinion, which stresses that the anti-SLAPP statute, Code of Civil Procedure §425.16, does not apply where conduct giv