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Because of the split in authority, the California Supreme Court has granted review of the court's rejection of the effort of government agents to assert the anti-SLAPP statute. It may well be revisiting its holding in Vargas v. City of Salinas, that government actors are protected by the state’s anti-SLAPP statute. The Vasquez court was right in rejecting the government officials‘ use of Sec. 425.16, but the court’s reasoning that voting by government officials should not be protected by the anti-SLAPP statute because it is not First Amendment activity did go far enough. No government conduct is First Amendment activity and no government activity warrants anti-SLAPP protections. Here is a link to a recent law review article detailing the developing split of authority and dissecting the problem with government use of anti-SLAPP statutes, in particular California’s ( Anti-SLAPP Confabulation and the Government Speech Doctrine ) : http://works.bepress.com/stevenjandre/19/

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