Tort – Defamation – SLAPP

Tort – Defamation – SLAPP

Where a plaintiff real estate developer filed a defamation complaint based on an email the defendant sent to the superintendent of the Lynnfield Center Water District, the complaint should have been dismissed under the anti-SLAPP statute because the plaintiff did not show that the defendant’s petitioning activity was devoid of any reasonable factual support or any arguable basis in law.