Case: Individual Employment Rights/Anti-SLAPP Motion (Cal. Ct. App., 3d Dist.)

A court of appeal denied the Trustees of the California State University’s anti-SLAPP motion to strike retaliation claims under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act and whistleblower retaliation claims brought by married tenured physics professors, including a female professor of Korean ancestry, finding that the university failed to establish that the challenged causes of action exclusively arose from protected conduct rather than unprotected activities such as constructive discharge and initiating a retaliatory investigation.

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