Varian SLAPP against free speech goes to the CA Supreme Court!
"...Petitioner and defendant, Michelangelo Delfino, has engaged in public discussions on the Internet of matters of public interest and in connection with various issues which were, or are, under consideration or review by various judicial or administrative bodies (i.e., Employment Development Dept. (EDD), California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board (CUIAB), the Superior Court of California for Santa Clara County, and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California), and has published complex and elaborate Internet web-sites which report upon the statements, events and filings made in these various judicial proceedings. All of these activities are protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and by the California Constitution, Article I, Section 2. Plaintiffs, particularly the corporate plaintiffs, have brought their lawsuit against Dr. Delfino for the purpose of preventing his exercise of free speech on matters of public concern and upon those matters which are before various administrative and judicial bodies.
Plaintiff, Varian Medical Systems, and the other corporate and individual plaintiffs, are all related to Varian Associates, Inc. which in April of 1999 split into three separate corporations which continued the employment of the two individual plaintiffs as manager and vice-president. ..."
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