Case Summary

5006 REVIEW DENIED. A high school student pursuing an entertainment career maintained a website on which fellow students posted threatening and derogatory comments. After the student and his parents sued the fellow students for violations of California's hate crimes laws, defamation, and intentional infliction of emotional distress, the trial court properly denied one defendant's anti-SLAPP motion because that defendant's post was a true threat, not protected speech. Additionally, the post was not made in connection with a public issue since the plaintiff was not a public figure.

D.C. v R.R. (Cyberbullying) 182 CA4 1190 REV DENIED [See D.C. v Harvard-Westlake 176 CA4 836, P/AT 09/09; Virginia v Black 538 US 343; Tinker v Des Moines, 393 US 503; O.Z. v Board of Trustees 2008 WL 4396895 (C.D. Cal)]