Robinson v. V. D.

Summary

The court denied the plaintiffs’ motion to dismiss the defendant’s appeal and transferred the case to the Appellate Court. It held that denial of a colorable special motion to dismiss under the anti-SLAPP statute is an immediately appealable final judgment because it implicates a substantive right to avoid litigation, and concluded that the defendant had asserted a colorable claim that some grievance-related statements involved petitioning the government about a matter of public concern.