The court of appeals affirmed in part and dismissed in part a judgment of the district court and remanded. The court held that a greeting card that satirized a celebrity’s public image was speech of the type that California has held was in furtherance of free speech rights on which the card’s publisher properly based its anti-SLAPP special motion to strike the celebrity’s complaint.
Paris Hilton, a well-known celebrity, was featured in a TV series in which she appeared in situations for which her privileged upbringing did not prepare her and in which she used her trademarked phrase, “that’s hot,” whenever she found something interesting or amusing. During one episode, Hilton worked as a restaurant waitperson.
