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"Are the Authors of Consumer Reviews Protected by Anti-SLAPP Laws?"

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An interesting post by Paul Alan Levy (Consumer Law & Policy Blog), about a brief that Public Citizen just filed in VIP Pet Grooming Studio, Inc. v. Sproule; as the cases cited in the brief make clear, many courts do view such reviews as matters of public concern that are protected by anti-SLAPP statutes, though the trial court here took the opposite view.

Eugene Volokh is the Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA and a Visiting Fellow (Senior Fellow starting May 2024) at the Hoover Institution (Stanford). Naturally, his posts here (like the opinions of the other bloggers) are his own, and not endorsed by any educational institution.