3282 REVIEW DENIED Hearing on an anti-SLAPP motion should not be stayed to permit further discovery unless the party opposing the motion needs the discovery to obtain information that will help establish a prima facie case; the award of attorney fees to a municipality that successfully made an anti-SLAPP motion in an action challenging constitutionality did not violate the plaintiffs constitutional right of petition.CitationSCHROEDER v CITY COUNCIL (Municipal SLAPP) 97 CA4 174 [See: CCP 425.16; Ketchum v Moses 24 C4 1122, T/AT 4/01 2992; Bill Johnson's v NLRB 461 US 731; Lafayette v Chronicle 37 CA4 855, T/AT 9/95 0969; Braun v. Chronicle 52 CA4 1036, T/AT 3/97 1529]
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