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4650 Defendant’s statements that his job was a horror, that he felt used, slaved without a break, and was pestered around the clock were not provably false assertions of fact, but opinions expressed as rhetorical hyperbole, and therefore could not lead to defamation liability; defendant’s characterization of an incident he described was a statement of opinion, and unless his description of the incident contained provably false assertions of fact could not be the basis of defamation liability; statements made in a magazine about a person of interest to the magazine’s readers are statements made in a public forum about a matter of public interest, so an action arising from the statements is subject to the SLAPP statute.CitationNYGaRD v UUSI-KERTTULA (Finnish Magazine) 159 CA4 1027 [See: CCP 425.16; CivC 45; McGarry v USD 154 CA4 97, T/AT 9/07]
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