IMMUNITY
Korbin v. Gastfriend, No. SJC-09251 (Mass. Jan. 20, 2005)
The Supreme Judicial
Court of Massachusetts held that the state's anti-SLAPP statute ("Strategic
Lawsuit Against Public Participation") did not
provide immunity to a physician for statements he made about another physician
during the course of an investigation by the state board of medicine. The court
found that the plain language of the statute only applies to statements made
to the government on an individual's own behalf, not while acting as a paid expert
witness for the government.