Hollywood's Dirty Little Secret to Beat Defamation Lawsuits: Statute Designed for Underdogs. The entertainment industry just chalked up another victory armed with a potent legal tool: California’s SLAPP law. The most recent win was by actor Marlon Wayans, who won dismissal last month of a lawsuit by a movie extra who claimed that Wayans racially harassed him on Twitter and on the movie set for “A Haunted House 2.”A California Court of Appeal ruled that the SLAPP statute gave Wayans the power to quickly dismiss the lawsuit by movie extra Pierre Daniel because Wayans’ “allegedly harassing and offensive” tweets and verbal jabs were protected “free speech” in connection with “an issue of public interest.”Also Read: Daphne Zuniga, Marlon Wayans and 2. Other WTF New Academy Members. Daniel sued over Wayans’ tweet that posted a photo of the extra next to the black “Family Guy” cartoon character Cleveland Brown, saying: “Tell me this n. Ol Cleveland Brown ass looking @ahhmovie 2 @whatthefunny I’m hurting!”The extra, who is African American, also sued Wayans claiming that the actor repeatedly called the extra a slang version of the n- word that ends with “a” instead of “er” on the movie set.

Wayans’ conduct was protected by the law, the court explained, because his comments on the set of the movie for “A Haunted House 2” were part of his First Amendment- protected improvisational creative process of creating a character named Cleveland, as was his tweet to promote the movie to his large Twitter following.“California courts have found that there is a public interest in the meaning of the anti- SLAPP statute . The California Legislature enacted the SLAPP statute in 1. The law says that anyone could bring a SLAPP motion to get rid of a lawsuit if they could show that they were being sued for exercising their right to speak at government hearings or exercising their right to free speech “in connection with an issue of public interest.”Also Read: The 'CSI' Curtain Call: A Look Back at One of TV's Biggest Shows. But in recent years the courts have interpreted the “public interest” requirement so broadly that it now applies to any lawsuit that targets speech about “any issue in which the public is interested,” according to a California appellate court.“In other words,” the court said in Nygard v. Uusi- Kerttula, “the issue need not be .

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The court found that CBS’ casting decisions for on- air talent are “acts in furtherance of its First Amendment rights” and “weather reporting is a matter of public interest.”The court also found that Hunter was not likely to win his discrimination claim. Just last year, a California appellate court held that a throwaway line in David O. Russell’s acclaimed feature “American Hustle” about microwaves supposedly sucking the nutrition out of food was protected by the SLAPP statute. The court ruled that both the movie and the theory by author Paul Brodeur on which the line was based were speech about a matter of public interest. Brodeur’s defamation and other claims were dismissed as unwinnable. There’s another rub for plaintiffs who dare to sue the entertainment industry: The SLAPP statute’s mandatory fee- shifting provision means that losing plaintiffs must reimburse the deep- pocketed entertainment and media defendants for their legal fees.

That means even movie extras and would- be weathermen might end up with a huge bill that they must pay to the entertainment company, news network, or actor who beats back their lawsuits with a SLAPP motion. Getty Images. Daphne Zuniga, actress. Watch New Red Trees (2017) Online. Zuniga is best known for her work on the '9. TV soap . His credits include Will Ferrell hits like “Anchorman.

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