City fails to invoke SLAPP to shut down investigation of acts of public officials
The Sixth District Court of Appeal ruled when a lawyer hired a private investigator to look into allegations that a Morgan Hill city attorney was having an affair with the city manager, that that inquiry was protected activity. -DB Metropolitan News-Enterprise September 22, 2009 By Sherri M. Okamoto A lawyer who hired a private investigator to determine whether a city attorney was engaged in an inappropriate romantic relationship with the city manager and was later