AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION v. BRONNER

No. 19-CV-1222.

259 A.3d 728 (2021)

AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION, et al., Appellants, v. Simon BRONNER, et al., Appellees.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided September 30, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas C. Mugavero , Falls Church, VA, for appellants the American Studies Association, Duggan, Marez, Tadiar, Maira, Reddy, and Stephens.

Maria C. Lahood , New York, NY, with whom Astha Sharma Pokharel and Shayana D. Kadidal were on the brief, for appellant Salaita.

Mark Kleiman for appellant Puar.

Jerome M. Marcus , Wyncote, PA, with whom Jennifer Gross , Joel Friedlander , Wilmington, DE, and Eric D. Roiter were on the brief, for appellees.

Radhika Sainath , in support of appellants, for amicus curiae Palestine Legal.

Laura C. Regan , Marco Simons , and Rebecca Chapman , in support of appellants, for amicus curiae Members of the "Protect the Protest" Task Force.

Baruch Weiss and Graham W. White , Washington, in support of appellees, for amicus curiae Scholars for Peace in the Middle East.

Don Padou , amicus, in support of neither side.

Before Glickman, Easterly, and Deahl, Associate Judges.


This interlocutory appeal is from the Superior Court's denial of a "special motion to dismiss" under the Anti-Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation ("Anti-SLAPP") Act.1 The appeal requires us to construe certain of the statutory requirements governing such motions.

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