4144 Defendant-attorney's statements that plaintiff-attorney violated a statute and behaved unethically were assertions of fact that were provably true or false; a statement that plaintiff was seeking a pound of flesh from members of a community development's board of directors by virtually stalking them was a metaphorical expression of opinion not subject to being proved false.CitationRUIZ v HARBOR VIEW COMM ASSOC (Virtual Stalking) 134 CA4 1456 [See: CCP 425.16; CivC 47; Franklin v Dynamic 116 CA4 375, T/AT 4/04]
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