Hired Calif. Prosecutors Have Anti-SLAPP Protection

A Sacramento appeals court has given anti-SLAPP protection to a team of traveling prosecutors who try employers in rural California counties after injuries and deaths occur on the job. SLAPP refers to strategic lawsuit against public participation. Under California law, a district attorney or his deputies are immune from SLAPP lawsuits for their actions as prosecutors. The Sierra County district attorney failed to file the paperwork that proved he deputized two prosecutors who tried a Sierra County mining company and its director after a fatal accident killed one worker. But the appeal...