SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday sided with a screenwriter who claims he came up with the idea behind “The Purge” franchise, a dystopian society where citizens can commit any crime they desire during a designated consequence-free time period.
A Ninth Circuit panel upheld a lower court that denied an anti-SLAPP motion brought by the producers of the films and director/writer James DeMonaco. Although California’s anti-SLAPP statute is meant to bring an early end to lawsuits that direct claims at free speech activity such as filmmaking, the appellate court found the writer-plaintiff’s state law claim hinged on the fact that he wasn’t paid for his work.
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