Garrett M. Ziegler, et al. v. P. Kevin Morris

Whether California’s anti-SLAPP statute is unconstitutional, particularly as applied where a civil court, rather than dismissing claims predicated on criminal statutes that confer no private right of action, disregards time limits and orders briefing that burdens protected speech, coerces disclosures, and exposes defendants to punitive fee sanctions without the procedural safeguards required by the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments.