1/ BREAKING -- @dhillonlaw client @jenvanlaar just won her Anti-SLAPP motion v. former Rep. Katie Hill on multiple grounds including First Amendment and clear words of CA's revenge porn statute. Court also denied Hill's belated discovery motion. Attorney fee motion incoming.
https://twitter.com/DailyMail/status/1379981346634919937
2/ Previously, Hill's counsel dismissed their lawsuit against another media client of @dhillonlaw, @joemessina. That attorney fee motion is pending. Kudos to our clients, and my amazing First Amendment/media law colleagues, partner Krista Baughman and counsel Karin Sweigart!
3/ Hill is going to come out with a self-serving narrative, but in court her counsel argued that photos of her smoking a bong and having a three-way (or any way) relationship involving a staffer, was not newsworthy. Also, that our clients are not journalists so no 1A protection.
4/ The court thoughtfully and thoroughly dispensed with all of these arguments, finding that the photographs were newsworthy, @jenvanlaar was entitled to First Amendment protection, and that belated attempts to fish for communications between media entities were not discoverable.
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