Coburn v. Holper

• Court: Nevada Supreme Court
• Decided: July 22, 2015
• Docket: 64608
• Status: Unpublished

Opinion

appellant's alleged written statements on the report were of reasonable concern to any government agency to which appellant distributed the report. NRS 41.637 (1997); John, 125 Nev. at 753, 762, 219 P.3d at 1281, 1287. As to appellant's alleged slanderous statements about respondent to the marshals, false statements made to police officers are not "protected activity" within the meaning of the anti-SLAPP statute. See Lefebvre v. Lefebvre, 131 Cal. Rptr. 3d 171, 175 (Ct. App. 2011) (holding that the act of making a false police report is not an act in furtherance of the constitutional rights of petition or free speech). Accordingly, we conclude that the district court did not err in finding that appellant failed to meet his burden to prevail on an anti-SLAPP special motion to dismiss, and therefore we ORDER the judgment of the district court AFFIRMED.'

J. Gibbons

cc: Hon. Joanna Kishner, District Judge Israel Kunin, Settlement Judge Warm Springs Law Group Harold P. Gewerter, Esq., Ltd. Eighth District Court Clerk

'We have reviewed appellant's remaining arguments and conclude that they lack merit in the context of an appeal from an order denying a special motion to dismiss.

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