Opinion ID: 2638169
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Heading: Petition for Review and Issues before this Court

Text: After the Court of Appeal issued its opinion, only defendants petitioned for review in this court, raising contentions relating solely to those claims as to which the Court of Appeal had found that defendants' anti-SLAPP motion properly was denied. Because plaintiff did not petition for review or file an answer contesting any issue on which the Court of Appeal ruled against her, we have no occasion to address any such issue here. [11] Accordingly, the only issues before us are whether the Court of Appeal properly concluded that dismissal under the anti-SLAPP statute was improper with regard to plaintiffs claims relating to the following four incidents or conduct allegedly engaged in by one or more of the defendants: 1. Loftus's statement at the October 2002 professional seminar (relating to Jane Doe's position in the military), which the Court of Appeal concluded could support either (a) a cause of action for public disclosure of private facts, or (b) a cause of action for defamation. 2. Loftus's disclosure of plaintiffs initials during a deposition in March 2003, a disclosure that the Court of Appeal concluded would support, along with Loftus's statements at the October 2002 seminar, a cause of action for public disclosure of private facts. 3. Defendants' collection of information from court records, which the Court of Appeal concluded would support a cause of action for improper intrusion into private matters. 4. Loftus's alleged misrepresentation of her relationship with Corwin in obtaining information about plaintiff from plaintiffs foster mother, which the Court of Appeal concluded would support a cause of action for improper intrusion into private matters. We begin by discussing the standard that governs the determination of a motion to strike under the anti-SLAPP statute, and then turn to the application of that standard to each of the four incidents in question.