P1550 The fact that defendant's statements involved issues of employee mobility and competition in the abstract was not sufficient to bring an action for misappropriation of trade secrets bsed on those statements within the protection of the SLAPP statute, since in determining whether the SLAPP statute applies, the court must focus on the specific nature of the speech rather than the generalities that might be abstracted from it.CitationWORLD FINANCIAL GROUP v HBW (Public Interest) 172 CA4 1561 [See: CCP 425.16; Club Members v Sierra Club 45 C4 309, P/AT 1/09; Dyer v Childress 147 CA4 1273, P/AT 5/07]
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