p0512 REVIEW DENIED Complaints made to a City Council member and conversations the council member had with other city officials regarding the complaints were exercises of the First Amendment right of petition, so the SLAPP statute applies to an action arising from the complaints and conversations; an injunction preventing City Council members from advocating their constituents' positions would be too broad a prior restraint on speech to be Constitutional.CitationLEVY v CITY OF SANTA MONICA (Playhouse SLAPP) 114 Cal.App.4th 1252 [See: CCP 425.16; 42 USC 1983; Beilenson v Superior Court 44 Cal.App.4th 944, T/AT 5/96; Bradbury v Superior Court 49 Cal.App.4th 1108, T/AT 11/96]
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