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Where (1) a defendant’s application for a criminal complaint against a plaintiff was denied by a District Court clerk-magistrate, (2) the plaintiff later sought reimbursement of his counsel fees, and (3) the defendant then filed a special motion to dismiss pursuant to the anti-SLAPP statute, the defendant’s interlocutory appeal from the denial of that motion
The plaintiffs leased a condo from the defendant in the above building. A burst pipe caused severe water damage to their unit. References to settlement negotiations in a landlord’s answer to a lawsuit by tenants alleging lease and Chapter 93A violations constituted grounds to strike his pleading, a Housing Court judge has ruled. Plaintiffs Jake
Where plaintiff tenants have filed a special motion to dismiss a counterclaim asserted by the defendant landlord, that motion should be allowed because the counterclaim is based on protected petitioning activity by the tenants. “… Here, Count II of [defendant Matthew J.] DiRoberto’s counterclaim seeks an injunction to prohibit Plaintiffs’ claims against him ‘in toto’
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