McLaughlin v. Becerra CA2/4
Plaintiff and appellant Matthew McLaughlin, in propria persona, appeals from the trial court’s order granting defendant and respondent Kamala Harris’s special motion to strike the complaint under Code of Civil Procedure section 425.16, the anti-SLAPP statute. As Attorney General, Harris refused to process two proposed ballot initiatives submitted by McLaughlin because the proposed initiatives were facially unconstitutional. McLaughlin alleged that by doing so, Harris violated his right to petition. We conclude that because McLaughlin’s complaint was based on decisions and statements made by Harris in connection with issues of public interest, and McLaughlin failed to demonstrate a probability of prevailing, his complaint was properly stricken under section 425.16, subdivision(e) (section 425.16(e)). We therefore affirm.
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